Huang Long Yuan 黄龙源 National-Authenticated 国家验证 Huang Long Shan 4th Di Cao Qing 黄龙山四号井底槽青, Assoc Master Yang Quan Sheng 杨全胜, Curved Polygonal Work, Si Fang Ming De 四方明德。
Dearest Friends! This is the last ready piece of ZiSha Work for 2024 to be crafted from the Huang Long Yuan National-Authenticated Huang Long Shan 4th Quarry Di Cao Qing, for you. Future pieces of works to be crafted from this National-Authenticated 4th Quarry DiCaoQing will be bespoke commissioning. Grand Master Chen Guo Liang availed the remaining approximately 1kg of the clay slab for Assoc Master Yang to craft this Si Fang Jun De.
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ZISHA WORK COMES WITH THE ONE AND ONLY RECOGNISED AND RESPECTED NATION-AUTHENTICATION STAMP PROVIDED BY THE HUANG LONG YUAN COMPANY: THE SHIELD STICKER LABEL,
ONLY 20 LABELS COME WITH EACH PROCUREMENT OF ONE 15KG ZISHA CLAY BRICK FROM THE HUANG LONG YUAN COMPANY.
MISUSE IS PURSUED. USE IS HIGHLY REGULATED.
THIS IS THE ONE HOLY GRAIL ZISHA CLAY WE MUST WANT FOR OUR COLLECTION,
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Dearest Friends, as we embark on the journey of Fully-Handmade ZiSha works, we get to understand more and more, about the most formidable skills and experience crafting required to accomplish exemplary works formed from the msot formidable ceramic clay: ZiSha clay. Seemingly impossible to craft taking account of and knowing all the difficulties involved, but ultimately overcome by the sheer Gung (savoir-faire, skill and knowhow), passed down for the past FIVE HUNDRED years from the 1500s till now. 传承Chuan Cheng, from Master Teacher to student, student turns master and to painstakingly pass down the multiple skills, intricate details and knowhow of every STEP and EVERY CORNER that exists in a ZiSha work, inside-out. All around. The silent, humble and zenith craftsmanship required at every step, showcased by various exemplary works. ZiSha Art works from past to present, can be great due to the transcendental aesthetic design. They can also be great due to the mind-boggling and onerous skills involved.
For example, when forming a perfectly 90-degree angled squarish-perpendicular cornered Polygonal work, due to the high shrinkage of the ZiSha clay slab, a Master needs to craft the four slabs NOT in perfectly flat pieces, he has to coax a small curve into each slab, due to the tightening effect of the adjoining seams -> exerting a torsional force effect on the slab during firing. Also, how big is the slab? How far away from the centre to the adjoining sides? Gravitational pull on the slab as the slab shrinks during firing. What firing temperature? Even a 1 degC difference can make ALL the difference between success and failure. ZiSha ceramic crafting as the world’s most difficult ceramic crafting Art is coming to surface and gaining much admiration from the world over.
We thank all of you dearest friends for being together on this journey to save this other half of the tea journey:
Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art being the one half, Tea the one half.
Now CURVED POLYGONAL works take that to an even higher plane of difficulty.
First off, crafting polygonal pots which have curved surfaces or edges in a single plane is already difficult. To achieve curvature in dual planes, is even more difficult. To craft and realise curvatures in all 3 planes, is absolutely masterful. Assoc Master Yang accomplishes curvatures in all X-, Y- and Z- axes. Acme. Zenith.
AFTER FIRING, the curves of the FOUR slabs must "shrink - clip" into shape and coherency.
The RESULTING curves at the corners are to be continuous, despite the heavy shrinkage during firing. The curves have to be continuous, in this EXACTING Si Fang Ming De work crafted by Assoc Master Yang. And all must be done coherent and symmetrical: left versus right, front versus back.
The curved lid can be switched in all four directions. Absolute precision and aesthetics.
This lid-to-body interface, is also of the difficult 截盖 Jie Gai form.
The coherency carries on to the spout: Assoc Master Yang spares no effort to craft a TRULY OUTSTANDING SPOUT which is squarish, but yet curved in all 4 edges. Assoc Master Yang deserves our applause and adulation. We salute Assoc Master Yang for his extreme hard work and first class, virtuoso skills.
The handle is thoroughly ergonomic. The outer surface is crafted with generous girth and flatness for the THUMB PULP and dorsum of the middle phalanx of the middle finger to press against. Master Yang also taking the fine work of crafting a delicate curved chamfer onto the four outer edges. When treating the inner surface where the finger hooks, the chamfer is of a slightly larger curve so as to provide comfort to the curved (flexed) phalanges of the finger that goes in through the handle. Utter, amazing comfort.
The knob is an adorable, lovely caricature of the pot.
Marvel at Assoc Master Yang's extreme Polygonal pot skills.
Own a Polygonal pot at your home that is a showcase, an exemplar of a true superlative Polygonal pot. Be very proud. Assoc Master Yang, own one of his works if you have not.
We delight in his first-class Polygonal ZiSha works accompanying us in our tea journey.
The ultimate icing on this work, is that it is crafted from:
Huang Long Yuan's National-Authenticated Huang Long Shan 4th Quarry Di Cao Qing. Yes one of the six holy grail zisha clays we have explained. And this is the only 4th Quarry Di Cao Qing that we all aspire to and 100% trust.
Assoc Master Yang and Assoc Master Du had launched several works that utilise the Huang Long Yuan’s 4th Quarry Di Cao Qing between March 2023 to March 2024. This comes at great cost and under the auspices of their teacher Master Chen Guo Liang who is able to convince Huang Long Yuan company owner to avail this brick to them. Huang Long Yuan owner does not sell his National-Authenticated esteemed clays to anybody who walks in with cash. Connections and honesty and repute matter. And you our dearest friends, are who we serve to empower. We want to empower you. You do not need to do the negotiations. We do them for you. We run around and arrange them for you.
The works that utilise this Holy Grail of a ZiSha Clay, were, the,
1… 鸣远印包Ming Yuan Yin Bao
2… 折肩宫灯 Zhe Jian Gong Deng,
3… 四方明德 Si Fang Ming De, and,
4…and 顾泉 Gu Quan, which were all decisively, swiftly procured by our cherished friends and patrons all over the world.
We take this opportunity to thank and congratulate all the friends and patrons who had already procured these works!
This is the last and final Huang Long Yuan 4th Quarry Di Cao Qing ready piece for you. Future pieces are all only via bespoke ordering. Thank you. Grand Master Chen Guo Liang availed the remaining approximately 1kg of the clay slab for Assoc Master Yang to craft this Si Fang Jun De.
This amazing creation by Assoc Master Yang, is now available here for launch. We wish you friends best of fortunes to procure and proudly own one.
$1230, 145ml, crafted from Huang Long Yuan company's 黄龙源 National-Authenticated true 国家验证 Huang Long Shan 黄龙山 4th Quarry Di Cao Qing 四号井底槽青, its cherished launch here, this is the 四方明德 Si Fang Ming De,
