"Sui Han San You" 《岁寒三友》~ "Three Friends of Winter (Pine+Bamboo+Plum Blossoms)", 151.8ml, Lao Duan Ni 老段泥,by YiXing's Top Ornate Class Artist & Prodigy L4 Assoc Master Zhang Xue Lei 张雪磊, 助理工艺美术师 ~ Congratulations Ms B.T., Delaware 0843hrs 23rd Feb 2025

Presenting!!! The "Sui Han San You" 《岁寒三友》~ "Three Friends of Winter (Pine+Bamboo+Plum Blossoms)", 151.8ml, Lao Duan Ni 老段泥, by Top Ornate Class Artist & Prodigy L4 Assoc Master 张雪磊 Zhang Xue Lei!

Assoc Master Zhang Xue Lei purposely created this DELIGHTFUL, USABLE and equally astonishing, more austere-looking Ornate Work!  We applaud his month's work for this application and contribution to all our Friends' wishes to have a more "zen" looking, "less extravagant" but still extracting prodigy and young Ornate legend Zhang Xue Lei's amazing Artistic mind, stellar savoir-faire and exquisite craftsmanship!  Beautiful Ornate works of the highest finesse.

Zhang Xue Lei always say, "I will never let a work that I cannot be 1000% proud of, leave my studio."

Beyond Zhang Xue Lei's larger works, due to our patrons' requests in China, Zhang has started crafting these smaller pieces, that are right on the usable volumes for more modern families and gungfu one to two pax steepings.  Yes, to suit many people's request for something usable for one, two or three people's steeping, more austere looking, and still bear his trademark intricacy, showcases his skills in showcasing an Ornate work worthy in future of Museum standards and donations.

Bring home Xue Lei's his 150ml, "Sui Han San You" 《岁寒三友》~ "Three Friends of Winter (Pine+Bamboo+Plum Blossoms)"!  He can talk to you on Streamyard after your receipt! Show it on your tea table!  He will both blush and yet be proud!

Tea Culture: Tea + Fully-Handmade ZiSha. 

Take part in this exciting, fulfilling and enlivening part of the Chinese Culture!
Assoc Master Zhang chose for this application, Lao Duan Ni for crafting.
Perfection and Flair, Detail and Grit, all rolled into one as usual for every piece of Artwork he delivers!  Yes, as he says, "every piece that comes out from his studio"!

In the photos of the inner, there will be paired photos of the inner corresponding to the outer features, showcasing another gruelling aspect of Ornate work, Xue Lei coaxing each part slowly to accommodate the feature on the outside which he will craft and sculpt up!  No extraneous clays.  All delicately and strongly featured.
Painstaking planning in design, preparation and crafting.

His chosen engraved words on the bottom are:
"久经风霜雪, 不改岁寒心。"
"Getting through many winters (travail), one will be trained to endure and weather storms, ride through them with a strong heart."

Zhang Xue Lei's certificate contains the ZiSha work, hand-drawn and sketched from his art pencils.  He has learnt sketching and drawing as well.  Here he translates this other skill of his: lovingly and proudly onto the certificate you hold with this work.

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For your information, Zhang Xue Lei does not craft 光器Austere (e.g. Xi Shi, Fang Gu)/ 方器Polygonal/筋囊器Segmental-Corollary works for sale.  If you Google and trawl the net, and you find Austere/Polygonal/Segmental-Corollary pots "made by Zhang Xue Lei" sold by other retailers, they are all false.  Even if these pots bear "his stamp", they are not his works.  Avoid.  They are all duds (jigger-machined pots or half-handmade factory-line products stamped with Counterfeit Stamps).  And such stamps and certificates from these retailers are faked.  Such Chinese sites (bogus retailers) are ubiquitous.  If they are prevalent in China, imagine all the cookie-cut sites in English language made and designed to dupe the Westerners.  With AI, such sites can be drafted up really fast, and many retailers cookie-cut and paste photos from Taobao, where they get their central source jigger-machined pots from.  These sources have centralised photo-taking by the sourcing factory, and then distributed to their retailers.

Again, we reiterate, Zhang Xue Lei does not craft such Austere/Polygonal/Segmental-Corollary pots for sale.  He only crafts Ornate Class works, and he only avails them with us at RealZiSha.

Imitation is the best form of flattery/acknowledgement.
Zhang Xue Lei is famous, highly recognised and acknowledged now in our fraternity.