Show me your Yixing (and I'll show you mine!)

**JacksonChar** · 07-20-2012, 01:50 AM

Originally Posted by alohakid

It's a beauty but technically it does not appear to be an Yixing teapot .
In any case it's beautiful !

+1, nice pot

**alohakid** · 07-22-2012, 02:55 PM

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**SliceOfLife** · 07-30-2012, 01:46 PM

Both from JAS. The Green is for raw the brown/red for ripe. The Greens a touch better pourer and although I wanted BIG when I bought them (used to green tea... steaping 100ml at a time seemed ludicrous to me) is a better size, so it's my favorite. A bottle of aftershave fell on the red from about 2 ft up... amazingly the pot survived... but the lid was broke in about eight pieces. Crazy glue and a lot of time picking through my carpet later, it is one piece again. Still, if one of these pots happens to ever arrive broken but with a good lid over there, remember me Stephen.

Also... I'm on my last Beng of the raws... its the Mengku 1974, also my favorite so far... I go to reorder... and you are sold out. Curse you!

**Doc4** · 07-31-2012, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by SliceOfLife

Both from JAS. The Green is for raw the brown/red for ripe. The Greens a touch better pourer and although I wanted BIG when I bought them (used to green tea... steaping 100ml at a time seemed ludicrous to me) is a better size, so it's my favorite. A bottle of aftershave fell on the red from about 2 ft up... amazingly the pot survived... but the lid was broke in about eight pieces. Crazy glue and a lot of time picking through my carpet later, it is one piece again. Still, if one of these pots happens to ever arrive broken but with a good lid over there, remember me Stephen.

Also... I'm on my last Beng of the raws... its the Mengku 1974, also my favorite so far... I go to reorder... and you are sold out. Curse you!

The red pot looks like one I just ordered from Steve ... the green a slightly different shape but similar to my green one from him ... photo on the first page of this thread ... it's my go-to oolong pot at home.

**SliceOfLife** · 07-31-2012, 05:39 PM

The red one's a looker, just a bit big (more desk-wise than volumewise to be honest). It's really well-made. The green's very basic and compact. The perfect user pot with a charm of its own.

**bastimret** · 07-31-2012, 05:50 PM

I use this one for my Ten Ren Kings oolong.

**EdoB** · 07-31-2012, 07:20 PM

Originally Posted by alohakid

Wow - great pot! How old? Capacity? Source?

**alohakid** · 07-31-2012, 07:51 PM

thank you , here's a link :
http://jingteashop.com/pd-jing-tea-shop-yixing-yz.cfm

**EdoB** · 08-01-2012, 05:11 PM

It fooled me. From the link I see that it was made to look like an older pot. Nicely done. And what do you typically use it for?

**alohakid** · 08-01-2012, 06:22 PM

Tie Guan Yin

**syngent** · 08-05-2012, 10:42 PM

I prefer simple ones, but someone gave me my frog as a gift and i like it, doesnt pour very well, and plugging breath hole with finger wont stop the flow, but it was a great gift lmao

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**StillShaving** · 08-12-2012, 09:29 PM

Many nice pots in this thread. Makes me want to go shopping!

That Frog-on-Turtle pot made me wonder if there was some old story about turtles and frogs living together. I searched around but did not find anything specific. But someone snapped this interesting photo where all three were cooperating with each other. Full story of the photo blogged here.