Jing Le 静乐 ~ "Quiet happiness", 98.5ml, Xiao Mei Yao Zhu Ni 小煤窑朱泥, by our Collaborative Craftsman Wang Xing 王兴。
This is Wang Xing's LATEST *静乐 Jing Le*! Jing denotes Quiet & Stillness, Le means Happiness. This Model is exactly designed so. It has an amazing delectable silhouette, carefully sited and worked curvatures, properly sited and chosen designed spout and a complementary handle design for front-back cohesion, a stout but adorable stance, and topped off with a Jie Gai "Sectioned" Lid-vs-Body interface. Also, not all ZiSha models and designs are suitable to be crafted as small pots. Many models would fall short because the resultant aesthetic, ergonomics and aura do not appear nor feel right. Jing Le is one beautiful 90-100ml Zhu Ni small work that ticks all the right boxes and delights all of us at RealZiSha when Wang Xing presented his first prototype two months ago! Craftsman Wang Xing delights us again!
1. Jing Le, just like Jun De, Li Xing and Si Ting, 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 whole 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, AND working with Zhu Ni, which gives the most uncertainty during firing due to its high shrinkage!
2. Aspiring to craft the beautiful slim and svelte final shape that is this Jing Le, Craftsman Wang Xing garnered years of practice to accomplish this excellent silhouette.
3. Craftsman Wang Xing 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.
Heroes do not wear capes. We regards Wang Xing as one. Humble, hardworking and single-mindedly continuing his pursuit to help us all with affordable, high quality true Fully-Handmade ZiSha pots.
Here is Wang Xing!! A great salute to him and his hard work, as he had served many of you friends previously with efforts earlier this year!
Wang Xing's skills are brilliant.
His mastery of the overall shape is here for us to savour.
The Xing Ti 形体, is superb! From the photographs, we admire and easily appreciate his amazing Craftsmanship.
This is ZiSha Art, working with XiaoMeiYao ZhuNi, one with even higher shrinkage than ZiNi and DuanNi, and thus a lot more deformities that CAN arise easily during firing. Success rates between 50-70%. We bear witness to dear Wang Xing's skills as he PAINSTAKINGLY and PROUDLY presents his labor of love for all of you friends.
Steep tea with his Craft, Friends!
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Explained, https://www.realzisha.com/blogs/news/actual-zisha-landscape-at-yixing , the Craftsman by selling his hard-worked ZiSha craft at $190-$240, $45-$65 goes to the cost of the craft, inclusive of the fees for the firing for the kiln operator (three times per pot), the packaging boxes, and between $32 to $52 for the clay (Zi Ni Di Cao Qing, Duan Ni and upwards) used per pot. Craftsman takes 3 days (fastest 2.5days) to craft a pot. Out of 12 pots he makes a month of 30days, 9 pots will survive the kiln firing successfully. Out of 9 pots, a Craftsman on average sells 7 pots per month. For ZiSha models/designs that are very challenging and more complicated to craft, time taken will be longer, and the failure rate will be higher as well. Zhu Ni pots have higher failure rates than Zi Ni and Duan Ni pots too. Our Craftsmen are crazily committed to the cause of Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art and their strictness with their craft and dedication earn our respect. We give a big Thank You all of these Craftsmen, for they are saving what is our common precious tea culture: Tea + Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art and Craft.
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