It is not fully handmade. The inside of the teapot do not look correct
@yixingteapotvizioromklao504410 ай бұрын
Fully handmade or not fully handmade you might decide after you read below conditions. 1. Master Zhang is National Senior level master and 35 years experiences in making teapots. In 1989, he entered Yixing Zisha Craft Factory and studied under the provincial Master Ni Shunsheng. He is good at making teapots by fully handmade. The works are heavy and refined, with dignified shapes and smooth lines. Some works have been included in the volumes of "Zisha Style", "Chinese Contemporary Zisha", "Chinese Zisha Teapot Appreciation", "Yixing Guide Zisha Collection". In the past few years, he has won various awards in professional ceramic art exhibitions held at China and abroad. His works are quite influential at China and abroad and are favored by collectors. 2. This teapots is made by preorder and not anyone can get from markets. Normally Master will make limited - not more than three . 3. This teapot is Teapot’s Collector Edition as the skill is known as Sculpture that pile up at least 6-8 layers of purple clay on the surface of teapots and then only the master will use various of tools for four dragons. Very least master will make this kind of teapots without special and profession skills. 4. The teapot price is quite high.
@jimmychristensen711210 ай бұрын
@@yixingteapotvizioromklao5044 there are many people that call themself "Masters". In this business there are 30 fakes for every 1 real master. There are many ways to see if a teapot is realy handmade, and ine if the ways is to look inside. In most of your videos you do not show a clear image of the inside. When i see the very few seconds that you show the inside in this video, it do not look handmade at all. There are several things that look wrong. As i said, there are hundreds of "masters", but only very few real ones. I have been collecting real yixing teapots for decades, and from the info i can see in the video, i would not buy it. I am sure that there will be some people that will buy it, i am just saying that it's not gonna be me
@yixingteapotvizioromklao504410 ай бұрын
@@jimmychristensen7112 There are two types of craftman of Zhisha teapots, one is normal craftman that they just need to learn the basic skills of making teapots time learning is short . Another group of craftman which represent National level is certified by China Government known as Master and they need to learning at least 5-7 years for each level . From the basic craftman to the lowest level of National level of student , then they need to learn and sit for examination , they need to master the handmade skills for each teapots . For the next higher level , is the National Assistant level also take another 5-7 years, with the few conditions and need to sit for several exams and competition for upgrade themselves. For the following level are National Level Master and then National Senior Level Master and the highest level is National Research Level Master . All take about 5-7 or sometimes 10years to upgrading and they need to get gold medals for local and foreigner country competition. Most of the Country Master spent their whole life in Zhisha from young and they are disciple of Seven of Master who set up first factory of Zhisha. The whole process is strict and some of the master of fail they need to wait another round of exam. There are another two Honours level for Research level master after certain of period (5-10years) known as Provincial Master 省大师and Country Master 国大师. For the moment only very least of then get the Honours . I wonder what kind of “Master “ you mentioned about some of teapot collectors in Thailand also have same questions as you and they also collect teapots for decade. Another point is you have to know the different tools and the functions of the toolset. Yes in market lot of the fake handmade teapots and imitates of handmade style . Thats why need to know the sources of the teapots with certificate and pictures of the teapot taken with the Master . I hope this information is enough to clarify. Thanks for you comment and we can sharing different knowledges . By the way, we are pleased if you can share you teapots with us.
@jimmychristensen711210 ай бұрын
@@yixingteapotvizioromklao5044 i know the steps and the process etc. But even some masters simply choose to sometimes go the bad way, simply because the market is under so much pressure. Regarding my collection, i prefer to keep it private. Thank you for your answers, and good luck in the future 🙏 sawadee khrap