Yun Shi 云石, 168.8ml, BenShan ZhuNi 本山朱泥, by Craftsman Wu Peng 吴鹏。
-170ml to suit our tea sessions for one to two persons.
This amazing pot features the deft skills of Wu Peng, with the brilliant crafting of the difficult Rock of Lake Tai, 太湖石 "Tai Hu Shi" , as its lid knob! Vapour from the hot tea water within the pot, is able to rise into the slightly domed cavity within the convex lid, and then concentrate and rise, to permeate through this beautiful lid knob, making for a lovely aura during tea steeping.
Lake Tai is the famous Lake besides YiXing's Ding Shu Zhen 丁蜀镇 , The Place of Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art and the only place on earth where you find the top quality ZiSha.
Here is a picture of the famous Tai Hu Shi,
Craftsman Wu Peng 吴鹏, is an expert Craftsman handling BenShan ZhuNi 本山朱泥, and not just that, he curates and handpicks his own BenShan ZhuNi clay from the miners. His own pedigree of high quality BenShan ZhuNi.
Here he joins us at RealZiSha, excitedly alongside Craftsman Zhao Xiao Wei 赵小卫。Importantly, Craftsman Wu Peng 吴鹏 crafts up the BenShan ZhuNi ZiSha works while Craftsman Zhao Xiao Wei 赵小卫 crafts up the XiaoMeiYao and ZhaoZhuang ZhuNi ZiSha works.
ZhuNi is:
1. of a pasty consistency, and,
2. of high shrinkage compared to ZiNi and DuanNi.
Due to these two factors, you will seldom see ZhuNi pots that have embellishments and ornamental sculpting gracing them.
HOWEVER, HERE Craftsman Wu Peng, breaks through, and is AMAZINGLY ABLE TO CRAFT and give us such Austere-minimal Ornate class pots AT SUCH GREAT LOW PRICES.
This is a BOON to ALL of us ZiSha collectors, users and patrons. Such a BOON! ZhuNi, boasting Ornate class quality, experience and craftsmanship, at stupendous lowest prices.
This low price is made possible because of his dexterity, skill, experience and knowledge of his BenShan ZhuNi clay, which he has been specially working on more than 10 years, since year 2012.
Craftsman Wu Peng lovingly and carefully coaxed the BenShan ZhuNi into these Works of Art on our tea tables. Thank you for your grandest support to these honest and dedicated Craftsladies and Craftsmen left to fend the Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art.
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TRULY FULLY-HANDMADE AND DELICATELY MADE.
NOT those thick-/irregular-thickness-walled ones which are actually fake "Fully-handmade ZhuNi pots" utilising the cheating new technology: "车一刀 Che Yi Dao": Such ZhuNi pots utilizing Che Yi Dao process, have been sprouting up in the market since early 2022. Che Yi Dao involves a swivelling-rotational cutter that goes around a roughly-finished ZhuNi pot to cut the outer surface into a perfect shape. This cutter obliviates the need of accomplished skill of a true Fully-Handmaking Craftsman. Obviously, Che Yi Dao also absolves the need of a skilled FHM Craftsman to 1)pound the slab into a careful thin-slab, 2)paddle-pat the slab into a uniform shape purely manually.
In the utilisation of Che Yi Dao cutter, the worker will just need to 1) roughly pound the slab into a slightly thicker slab. After that the worker rounds up this slab as part of the main body, and will just 2)need to ROUGHLY paddle-pat it into shape. After which he sets up the Che Yi Dao cutter to revolve and cut the body into a perfect shape.
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