This is the latest Jun De shape by our latest Craftsman Gu Xiao Ming! Gu Xiao Ming has been "roped in" since May 2024 by our Craftsman Chen Fa Chu to be altogether in a super happy team!
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Jun De 君德。Jun De 君德, Gentleman's Morality and Integrity.
It is one of the top Austere models that is difficult to craft right and cohesively.
1. Jun De 君德, just like Jing Le 静乐, Li Xing 梨形 and Si Ting 思婷, has its main body comprising of two parts to be worked on. Starting with the singular rectangular Zi Sha slab, the Craftsman needs to paddle-pat and coax the upper half into a constricted/narrower neck, while working on a separate stage, the lower half into a convexity, the eventual form into a continuous cohesion. The challenge and difficulty in craft lies in the small confines to work with, two body parts with different girths. A beautiful svelte and excellent silhouette that is seemingly simple, but an Austere shape which takes years of experience to perfect. It also contains, the Jie Gai 截盖 that Craftsman Gu accomplishes with flair. An excellent silhouette. that is this Jun De.
Craftsman Gu Xiao Ming had also conscientiously sculpted a 手推内球孔 Hand-Pushed Spherical Filter to increase the number of filter holes for a solid and fast pour of tea out, working with the largish diameter spout; and with better catching of tea leaves at the bottom fast while allowing tea to flow out from the upper holes.
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Dearest Friends, thank you, on behalf of Craftsman Gu Xiao Ming 顾小明 for your kindest support to him and fellow devoted Craftsmen left here, to fend the Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art, providing honest-to-goodness hard-worked Fully-Handmade ZiSha premium-skilled-craft at the lowest prices on the market. Savour his labour of love and this beauty from his hands, the Han Jiang and let his kind work from his heart accompany you on your tea journey!
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BRING ONE HOME, USE IT and you will know all about Fully-Handmade ZiSha, the feel of real and quality YiXing ZiSha, the nurturing of Patina, how true ZiSha Patina feels and looks like, the Zenith Tea Taste that only Pure and Good Quality ZiSha can give you, and equally important: the Aura exuding from a Fully-Handmade ZiSha Work which others simply can't bring forth, all from the hands of Craftsman Gu Xiao Ming's skills. You will know everything then. With you friends, we are altogether fending our common tea culture.
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Carefully examine these Fully-Handmade works by our devoted and committed Craftsmen. Look at it from afar, from near, and it will grow on you, with fine detailing with MUCH THOUGHT on each part, with MUCH TIME spent on every part, section. Because this is what Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art should be, and HOW FULLY-HANDMADE ZISHA ART is so different from and light years ahead of the ubiquitous jigger-machined pots and half-handmade pots masquerading under the sales tagline of "fully-handmade zisha" pots. These latter JM/HHM pots are made in what we call 流水线 a.k.a. 'Factory-Line operation' whereby the main pot body after being jigger-machined or coming off from the mould, is passed to the next worker who fits on the spout, and subsequently this second worker will pass the pot on to another worker who will in turn fit on the handle. Continuing so, the pressed lid is likewise passed to another worker who fit on the lid knob. EACH WORKER has NO IDEA what the other one is doing, and they are always working on fixed time lines stated by the boss. For example, the worker being "passed the baton" a pot with the spout just fixed onto the body by his colleague, will only focus on fixing on the handle, with nil to little regard to WHETHER THE HANDLE fixed on will be cohesive with the spout. Each worker has NO idea of HOW THE FINAL POT WILL LOOK LIKE. Beyond poor craftsmanship and clay, the result of such processes are ugly pots with poor cohesiveness which experienced Artists, Craftsmen and collectors will tell from a metre away. Experienced people in us, do not need to pick up a pot to check whether it is fully-handmade or made of zisha, we can tell from a metre away just by looking at the pot.
The keywords are: Detailing and Cohesiveness.
A GOOD Fully-Handmade ZiSha Work combines great detailing and cohesiveness.
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(Dear Friends, during the photo-taking process, five to six separate spotlights above and around, are used. Looking at the photos, the collar-rim of the lid-body interface thus shows the various spotlights' reflection. You will therefore see 2 to 3 scattered brighter spots around the collar-rim. Some friends had asked before, "is the rim-collar having any irregularity in circularity?". Thus, rest assured. Do not misconstrue the two to three brighter spots around the lid-body rim collar to mean any irregularity in circularity of the rim-collar.
Yes, the rim-collars of all these ZiSha works crafted by our Craftsmen ARE REGULAR in CIRCULARITY :-D, and you can rest assured. Thank you Friends.)
