Astronomical Launch Work: Zhi Hui•Xin•Jing~Ti Liang 智慧•心•境~提梁 by Senior Consummate Yuan Hui 袁辉, Senior Consummate Master Shi Chang 施昌, Prime Master Wang Chao Peng 王超鹏。
Dearest Friends, you are hereby presented with this most amazing ZiSha work, bearing the best from THREE ZiSha Maestros!
The Zhi Hui•Xin•Jing~Ti Liang 智慧•心•境~提梁。
Dearest Friends, at RealZiSha we scour and scan the landscape for the trustworthy, avoid the otherwise.
You as the patrons with the heart to safeguard this Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art, we hold you dearly in our hearts and in the highest regard who save this tea culture from the ubiquitous fake ZiSha pots that populate the tea landscape.
Here in our team of Craftsmen and Artists, we keep our blinders on, we are focussing on all efforts we can muster. You deserve the BEST.
We definitely procure the best in the landscape for you. Rest assured always. The Grand Masters have our backs too. Our Cao Family and our reputable Friends will trudge on.
After much hard work, planning behind the scenes, we are finally able to bring you this magnificent work painstakingly accomplished and exclusively by 3 Top Masters.
All the experience and skill, garnered through years of single-mindedness focus and dedication to their craft.
The Top, the Distillation of All Three Masters' Bests, into one piece of treasured Zenith work!
This is an A1, Stellar Piece of Polygonal Work with Distinction, and also be RISING in value through the years as it is exclusive with us at RealZiSha and the Cao Familiy, and is highly sought after.
This is The ZiSha Work which every collector of Polygonal ZiSha Class work, ZiSha Clay Sculpting, and ZiSha Calligraphy Engraving should aspire to own as an heirloom.
We have spoken much within our fraternity, and this is the most masterful and EXCLUSIVE collaboration between Senior Consummate Master Yuan Hui, Senior Consummate Master Shi Chang and Renowned Premier Kai Shu Engraving Artist Wang Chao Peng. We at RealZiSha continue to work out the best for all of you.
RealZiSha's trademark:
Razor thin profit margins. Hard work. Authenticity. Lowest prices. Top provenance.
All so that dearest friends in you, guardians of the tea culture, will win on this journey. You just enjoy the BEST, let us continue to hard work on all the rest.
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ZISHA POT CRAFTING:
L2A Senior Consummate Master Yuan Hui 高级振兴技艺美术师～袁辉 is, as we have stated in his Section, THE ARTIST WITH the fastest rate of rise in history, being promoted WITHIN SEVEN YEARS amazingly through 4 ranks from 2014 to 2021:
~ Attaining Accredited Artist,
~ to Assoc Master Artist,
~ to Master Artist,
~ to L2 Senior Master Artist (and a L2A Senior Consummate Artist at that).
Yes, all in seven years: 2014 to December 2021.
Although he started late in the ZiSha crafting career: he only started ZiSha crafting in 2012 at what is probably the industry's "oldest age" of 28years, he is able to fight against all odds, achieving this amazing achievement within seven years. Hard work. Prodigal great talent. He is also famed in YiXing ZiSha fraternity for his honesty, humility and extreme rate of improvement and diligence.
In YiXing, some things are rock and pine solid:
when the fraternity hears “Senior Master Yuan Hui” = we think of his Zhi Hui Ti Liang 智慧提梁 ZiSha composition,
and when we hear the ZiSha composition “Zhi Hui Ti Liang 智慧提梁” = we think of Senior Master Yuan Hui!
The analogy is, when we think Porsche = the 911 sports model comes to mind; when we think of the rear-engined sports car that is 911 = it is quintessentially Porsche's trademark icon.
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Zhi Hui Ti Liang 智慧提梁 is Yuan Hui's PINNACLE work, and it is his ORIGINAL composition that he brought amazingly to life stemming from his immense nous for design.
Senior Master YUAN HUI also wishes to make known that, his ICONIC and TOP work which is ZHI HUI TI LIANG 智慧提梁 is also PROCURABLE WORLDWIDE, BOTH OVERSEAS AND IN CHINA, EXCLUSIVELY ONLY FROM OUR FRIENDLY FAMILY AND TEAM AT REALZISHA.
ZHI HUI TI LIANG IS THE WORK THAT WON GOLD AWARD AT THE LEGENDARY JING ZHOU CUP COMPETITION, HELD ONLY ONCE IN GRAND COMMEMORATION OF THE LATE GU JING ZHOU, 景舟杯 in 2015!
The YiXing ZiSha fraternity had toiled hard and held the one-off but massive Jing Zhou Cup in tribute to the late Gu Jing Zhou.
Yuan Hui’s Zhi Hui Ti Liang 智慧提梁 is the work that WON GOLD.
This is the winning certificate which he will produce a photocopy for you the Collector of his Zhi Hui Xin Jing Ti Liang pot GRANDLY LAUNCHED HERE!:
This shape, the Zhi Hui Ti Liang is to the Fraternity, demonstrative of how shockingly against all odds: an ultra complex Polygonal with sharp flat surfaces, curved corners, multiple linear and cohesive motifs + Overhead Top Handle ZiSha Work, of such difficulty and painstaking intricacy, CAN EVEN BE ACCOMPLISHED!
The epic, Zhi Hui Ti Liang, combines Complexity AND Elegance, Oriental Grace AND Strength.
Yuan Hui's name is forever etched into the Halls of Fame because of this Gold award winning pot at the Jing Zhou Cup in 2015.
He is now rated one of the top three Polygonal ZiSha work Artist in the ZiSha Fraternity.
The top is held by Provincial Grand Master of The Arts, Shao Shun Sheng.
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紫砂泥绘 ZISHA CLAY SCULPTING:
L2 Senior CONSUMMATE Master Shi Chang 施昌, is only, 32 years of age this year 2024. He is born in 1992.
He has achieved winning the Gold Award for an unprecedented FIVE consecutive years at the prestigious National Craftwork "Quan Guo Shou Gong Da Sai 全国手工大赛" competition! SO FAR, NO OTHER ZISHA ARTIST HAS BEEN ABLE TO WIN GOLD AT THIS MAJOR COMPETITION FOR A CONSECUTIVE FIVE YEARS! But prodigal talent Yuan Hui accomplished this unprecedented feat. Here is our snapped photo of him at work,
And here at RealZiSha, very exclusively, we also show you his most esteemed certificates for all the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 wins at this chief, critical competition!!!
And he struck Gold yet again in Yr 2022:
Senior Master Shi Chang is also awarded in Yr 2021, the Prestigious National "May 1st" Labour Award from the government, due to his outstanding achievements!:
HE HAS NOW RISEN IN DECEMBER 2023 TO THE RANK OF L2 Senior Master Shi Chang 高级工艺美术师 and the special L2A Senior CONSUMMATE Master 高级振兴技艺师 rank at that and all his works have already, increased in value and standing. Commissioning him to perform his Clay Sculpting for a special ZiSha Master's work, and depending on the area covered, and difficulty involved, would cost between $1,500 - $2,500 going up to: HIS TOP SIGNATURE AND FAMED IN YIXING ZISHA, HIS UNIMITABLE:
SHAN SHUI LANDSCAPING CLAY SCULPTING.
施昌～宜兴～紫砂山水泥绘。
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紫砂书法刻绘 ZISHA CALLIGRAPHY ENGRAVING:
Prime Master Wang Chao Peng 王超鹏
WANG CHAO PENG IS YIXING'S NUMBER 1 CALLIGRAPHY ENGRAVING ARTIST.
It used to be that Master Wang only engraves on works that his nephew Master Lu Shun Rong 工艺美术师～陆顺荣 ZiSha Art teapot works, BUT now with special connections between our Cao Family and him, negotiating strongly, and sitting together with Yuan Hui and Shi Chang,
Master Wang Chao Peng has struck the accord and WILL specially engrave on Yuan Hui's works!
Price-wise:
As stated here in this Yuan Kuang Da Hong Pao ~ rare Clay ~ Wang Chao Peng engraving Section,
https://www.realzisha.com/collections/yuankuangdahongpao-wuni-douqing-qingduan-benshanluni-huanglongyuansihaojingdicaoqing
and also here, where you can learn at his personal Section here with us on RealZiSha: his excellence and why he is rated so highly by YiXing fraternity:
https://www.realzisha.com/collections/wang-chao-peng-%E7%8E%8B%E8%B6%85%E9%B9%8F-yi-xing-zi-sha-number-one-kai-shu-style-calligraphy-engraving-master-%E5%AE%9C%E5%85%B4%E7%B4%AB%E7%A0%82%E6%A5%B7%E4%B9%A6%E5%88%BB%E7%BB%98%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%80%E9%AB%98%E4%BA%BA
HIS MOST OUTSTANDING work which he is most famous for, is:
The Heart Sutra 心经 in the almost microscopic Small Kai Shu Style 楷书刻绘。
Very few modern great Calligraphers major in Kai Shu Style calligraphy. It is the most demanding.
GOING A MILLION STEPS FURTHER, MASTER WANG HAS TO WORK ON A SURFACES (OUR ZISHA POTS) that would not be lying flat on the table and can be curved surfaces on Roundish pots too.
Onerous.
But this is the reason Master Wang is known as THE APOGEE.
Endearing to all of us, he is extremely humble, and his price for performing his engraving Art for our ZiSha works, is not exorbitant.
His price ranges from $800 to $1950 for most works (price proportional to the number of words you propose to have),
and, $1800-$2500 for ZiSha's Fraternity Top:
Full Heart Sutra ~ Kai Shu Style in his Most FAMOUS, Skilled and Difficult: 3mm² to 1.5mm² per word Engraving Wonder.
Here in this Grand Collaboration Work the Zhi Hui Xin Jing~Ti Liang with Senior Consummate Yuan Hui and Senior Consummate Master Shi Chang, he engraves his 2.5mm² per word: FULL HEART SUTRA, Here, he agrees to give in and sacrifice his own time, for this dedication to this monumental Triumvirate Work together with Senior Consummate Master Yuan Hui and Senior Consummate Master Shi Chang.
Why is this considered a huge sacrifice undertaken by these three Giants, for all of you friends for this work?
We read on:
Explanation again of the preciousness of this collaboration,
After a ZiSha work is crafted by the 1)ZiSha Pot Artist, it would be brought, precariously over, to the studio of the 2)Clay Sculpting Artist.
After the Clay Sculpting Artist completes the Sculpting, he brings it back to the ZiSha pot Artist,
The ZiSha pot Artist will thereafter, bring it to the kiln for firing, usually 3 to 4 times arrangement.
Failures, e.g. any minute warps, deformation, cracks, often arise during firing, especially during the first firing.
Minute warps and deformation are especially easy to detect and though minute, they defeat the whole work.
This whole Zhi Hui•Xin•Jing~Ti Liang massive work, even if it suffers only a minute warp, has to be abandoned.
What this means is,
Yuan Hui has to craft ANOTHER Zhi Hui Ti Liang, bring it over to Shi Chang for Clay Sculpting.
This LABORIOUS and GRUELLING process GOES ON A FEW TIMES (THREE TIMES ON AVERAGE) before ONE pot comes off the firing kiln, intact!
The chances of this COMPLEX POLYGONAL TOP HANDLE POT SUCCEEDING is, again, ONE IN THREE.
This Zhi Hui Xin Jing Ti Liang is hence,
A Colossal Work of immense difficulty.
NOW, ADDING ANOTHER huge difficulty to the fold:
We have the THIRD Artist involved: the ENGRAVING Artist who is Master Wang Chao Peng.
Dearest friends, at this point, you would appreciate, the UNBELIEVABLE efforts involved in this 3-Artists' Work, back and forth between the three of them.
They cannot blame each other. The three Artists have to be brothers in arms, shoulders and arms interlinked to make this a giant collaboration work a cherished and prized success.
One minute warp, will mean, the whole process all over again.
In YiXing ZiSha fraternity, such triumvirate collaborations are feared and undertaken with trepidation between Artists. They may stand to lose the whole one or two month's of work (and income) for an average of one to two failed works.
However,
1. When the mindset is not about the financial rewards (for subsistence is okay enough for these esteemed humble Artists),
2. When the mission is to give, to support the fraternity, to give to the Friends, you Friends,
3. When the connections between the all of us Artists here at RealZiSha with our Cao Family is strong.
We will make the BEST things happen for you friends.
Here is the work that illuminates magnificently the whole tea room,
Dearest Friends, the Zhi Hui•Xin•Jing~Ti Liang 智慧•心•境~提梁。
袁辉 Yuan Hui’s most famed Zhi Hui 智慧 (Wisdom), Ti Liang 提梁 (Top Handle)
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王超鹏 Wang Chao Peng’s most famed engraving of the Xin Jing 心经 心 (Heart Sutra)
+
施昌 Shi Chang’s most famed clay sculpting of Shan Shui (Mountains and the Waters) expositon of the Yi Jing 意境 (Aura & Atmosphere).
Here the Zhi Hui•Xin•Jing~Ti Liang 智慧•心•境~提梁, the most special top edition of the legendary Zhi Hui Ti Liang is here for all of you friends to collect.
Senior Master Yuan Hui, Senior Master Shi Chang and Premier Master Wang Chao Peng, despite all the above difficulties, ARE FINALLY ABLE TO BRING THIS CHERISHED EXCEPTIONAL, STATEMENT AND HISTORIC WORK to fruition and success, offer their greatest sacrifice and ultimate collaboration HERE only at $6,900.
(To put things into perspective, $6,900 is low, compared to many items on show at many commercial art galleries in shopping malls.)
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Dear Friends,
The previous three ZiSha compositions by Yuan Hui and Shi Chang which you have seen on his webpage:
1. "Ming Yuan Shan Xing" 鸣远扇形, Ming Yuan Fan Configuration, at $4,700,
2. "Si Fang Bo Gu" 四方博古, Wisdom in Four Directions, at $4,700,
3. "Zhi Hui Ti Liang" 智慧提梁, Wisdom Top Handle, attained at $6,400.
These have been attained in the past two years by our seven different patrons.
The said, amazing and phenomenal "Zhi Hui Ti Liang" which Yuan Hui has been doing for our patrons in China ever since his win in 2015, has always been the 450ML VERSION, $4,900 (without Shi Chang's Clay Sculpting),
and $6,400 (with Shi Chang's Clay Sculpting).
Now,
Zhi Hui•Xin•Jing~Ti Liang 智慧•心•境~提梁
Senior Consummate Master Yuan Hui crafts the NEW:
700ML VERSION,
This Monumental 700ml will present itself in this Grand Collectable Work at $6,900 with Senior Consummate Master Shi Chang and Prime Master Wang Chao Peng!!!
(Rest assured about the shipping safety and insurance, we will have it assured. Besides the administrative safety from us, physically there will be an over-engineered specialised custom box + a specialised outer parcel box of thick panels, in laid with swathes of bubble wrapping).
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A bigger pot means higher chances of failure at the kiln.
The Top Handle adds greatly to the chances of failure.
This is embarked with the aim for:
1. Senior Master Shi Chang to have a broader expanse of space to Sculpt on and to exhibit FULLY: the totally wide expanse of Mountains and Waters, to translate even more beguilingly, the atmospheric characteristic Chinese Landscape 山水 Art on your tea table, all on one face.
Senior Master Shi Chang's FORTE is, and he is MOST RENOWNED FOR,
山水泥绘 Shan Shui Clay Sculpting.
2. Prime Master Wang Chao Peng is able to engrave his most famous 260-characters Heart Sutra ALL ON ONE FACE, without splitting into two faces as with almost all his other Heart Sutra engraving!
THIS ZHI HUI•XIN•JING~TI LIANG WORK IS CALCULATED BETWEEN Yuan Hui, Wang Chao Peng AND Shi Chang PRECISELY, AND DECIDED TO BE THE, LARGE 700ML VERSION SO THAT THE FULL HEART SUTRA CAN BE ENGRAVED ON ONE FACE. AND YET 700ML EXHIBITING GRANDIOSITY AND YET STILL BEING PRACTICAL TO BE HANDLED ERGONOMICALLY AND REASSUREDLY USED FOR EXHIBITION DEMONSTRATION, STEEPING AND SERVING OF TEA FOR GUESTS.
The Thorough YiXing ZiSha Art, all Three Giants and Maestros of YiXing ZiSha Art: 1)YiXing ZiSha Pot, 2)YiXing ZiSha Engraving and 3)YiXing ZiSha Clay Sculpting, all combined into this GRANDIOSE, STATEMENT and HISTORIC Work. We congratulate in advance the owner of this priceless work.
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Furthermore, the price will keep escalating as well. The price of this MONUMENTAL Exclusive work, this year it is launched at $6900, AND NEXT YEAR it will be moderately increased to $7,500, with their conservative $600 increase yearly, before the huge jump:
before Senior Master Yuan Hui and Senior Master Shi Chang EACH or BOTH climb the next level to L1 Research Level Master Artist. FUN FACT: Senior Consummate Master Yuan Hui and Senior Consummate Master Shi Chang are actually close friends, they often meet for tea! They are both putting in their efforts to REACH L1 Research Level Master Artist within the next three years by 2027! :-D A friendly but intriguing race between the two of them! We shall see who attains L1 Research Level Master Rank first! This Grand Triumvirate work will easily heighten and climb astronomically in value,
Thus we are promptly procuring such a Pinnacle work.
For a Polygonal pot from a L1 Research Level Master Artist, of extreme difficulty and had also WON a TOP AWARD / his personal ICONIC WORK, would cost $11,000 and upwards, without engraving/clay sculpting.
If it is a collaboration between TWO L1 Research Level Master Artists, Pot+Clay Sculpting, or Pot+Engraving the valuation will soar to a minimum of $18,000, for either of them can be further elevated in rank to Provincial and National Grand Master.
A National Grand Master's Austere Work would be $55,000 at the very least currently in the Fraternity.
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The aura, stillness and atmosphere one gets from reading the Heart Sutra in completion and totality, with the top Kai Shu style engraving, wholly on one side is priceless.
The atmosphere one gets from watching the broad and expansive scenery of YiXing mountains, clouds and water scenery on one side, is transcendental.
We therefore present this top ZiSha Work for your prized collection.
Senior Master Yuan Hui took two weeks to craft one specimen, Senior Master Shi Chang had to bend over and stare into details and work up the beguiling landscape, and Prime Master Wang Chao Peng had to spend a few days to plan, much patience and detailed handwork to craft each single Chinese character. Imagine him staring into one small 2.5mm space for each character and crafting out and exhibiting the 笔锋 Bi Feng of each calligraphed Kai Shu tiny character. He needs to do this 260 times, spanning five to seven days before he could complete the full verse. ONLY one pot out of three succeeded, so, this is for you to cherish.
This pot is available ONLY, through us, our most special RealZiSha collaborations.
Yuan Hui's Zhi Hui Ti Liang itself is also, since 2023, procurable worldwide (China and Overseas) only through our happy family and team at RealZiSha. We have been able help our local Chinese and international patrons to procure the top works from Grand Master Shao Shun Sheng, Grand Master Chen Guo Liang, Grand Master He Dao Hong, Grand Master Cao Ya Lin, the late Grand Master Wang Yin Xian, the later Grand Master Jiang Rong, at the best and lowest prices, and coupled with the top provenance, authentication and certifications in the fraternity.
We carry on this dedication and hard work for all of you friends.
These three gentle giants come together for the cause of uplifting the fraternity, and making their special contributions to the esteemed YiXing ZiSha friends all over the world.
They believe that by coming together, by tripling their sacrifices from each party, they will triple the Artistic value and magnificence of the resulting Art.
In true embodiment of 1) Wisdom to propel the Art and Craft for the world of tea,
and of 2) Heart for the ZiSha friends all over the world,
The Zhi Hui•Xin•Jing~Ti Liang 智慧•心•境~提梁
智慧•心(心经)•境(意境) 提梁
An astronomical high worth ZiSha Work to proudly grace any Front Hall, Exhibition, it is here now.
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