“The old teapot is different from the newer teapot because… the craftsmanship is very obvious.”
“It’s ability… when it’s perfect, but not mechanic. When it’s mechanic — it’s like you are printing a straight line with a computer, using a printer. But if you draw a perfect line with your bare hand, that’s the beauty of art.”
Kingston teaches us about a pair of late Qing dynasty Shui Ping style Yixing teapots — made of Duan Ni clay — for King Rama V of Thailand.
Afterwards, leading lady Dae took some great photos of the pots.
Thank you for the great blog, very informative. I wanted to know how the pot was cleaned so well as I have a pot I have boiled a few times and cannot get a sent old tea off of it. Any suggestions.
Long soak in very mild bleach solution.
Then a washing out and a few changes of clean water, of course.
Thank you for your wonderful blog!
Do you know for which type of tea that teapot is used by its owner? Dua Ni is great mystery for me…
He has a pair, one is unused, one was brewing Sanyin Shui Xian, I believe.