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Yes, this is the third so far I’ve posted with the same wooden chop “gongju”. After you see enough of these you start to get a sense of the different makers’ styles. Gongju wooden stamped ones like these tend to … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Yixing Inventory
At what point does an item get past the level of wabi sabi and into the territory of just really badly made/damaged? You decide. 115ml. … Continue reading
This pot’s clay is weirdly spotted. Mark is Wu Desheng zhi, with Wu Desheng being an outfit during the Republican period that made pots. 165ml. … Continue reading
Not all yixing pots were used for tea brewing, or at least that’s the way it seems sometimes. In things like senchado sometimes they were used for water cooling/pouring rather than tea making. It’s not always clear to me why one … Continue reading
This kind of pot some call “starry sky” with the little yellow dots of sand. The mark under the lid is “hen” which literally means “mark” but sort of like a mark left by a knife. 75ml. … Continue reading
This is one of those pots with no marks. I like these a lot. 95ml. … Continue reading
The writing on the bottom of this pot is Yigong, another name that is commonly seen for this sort of pot. Notice little details like how the inner surface of the handle is flat – this makes holding the pot … Continue reading
This pot is one of the ones I use most heavily. I got this for a song because its handle was glued back on, but the gluing job was obviously very well done and there’s been no problem. The lion … Continue reading
Yes, another one. These seals are pretty common although they come in different shapes and sizes. 150ml. … Continue reading
The “gongju” mark is another one of these generic marks that supposedly mean something at some point, but is used so often it’s meaningless. The earliest ones are supposed to be made for imperial purposes starting in the Ming or … Continue reading
