r/YixingSeals

Don't know is this is a copy or a real one. Any advice? Thanks

Bought this from a friend a few years ago who bought it from her friend, who got it sometime between 2005-2015 in Taiwan. Would love to know anything about the potter!

It’s a great pot, functions beautifully, makes great tea. Has a very interesting but quite useful effect where the only note it really mutes is smokiness.

My mom thinks she bought these teapots in the 1970s after she married my dad. Any info on these teapots pots and approx value appreciated.

Saw this in at a local store in Oregon and I loved this tea it has honey and orchid aroma. I asked for a recipe but the owner gave me this things anyone knows anything about it?

1920s Chinese geometric Yixing-style tea set brought to UK by merchant seaman — can anyone identify the seals?

Hello all! I found this teapot and quite adore it. I just wanted to make sure it was genuine before purchase. I’m keen on it if it is a genuine Yixing teapot. Can anyone help?

I’m sorry if the photos are insufficient! I didn’t remember to take a photo of the inside, but there is a built in filter of multiple direct holes and the edges of those are not super refined.

Thank you!

Have a I found a hidden gem by mistake ? Can someone tell me what I have here

The clay looks very good to me.

Trying to redraw the symbols brought me to: 春孟?三月貢茶

Which lead me here: https://tw.bid.yahoo.com/item/101136236057

The pot has a little crack, which you can see in the forth picture

If you recall I was searching for a dragon teapot some time ago and u/servania told me what to look for and now I have this and I couldn't be happier. Even the head reaches out while pouring 😀 A signature seems to be under the lid.

Pretty sure it's not real yixing, but i'm not an expert. Any additional info would be welcome. Thanks in advance!

I’m for sure hater of under 200ml teapots but I’ve had to get this one about 100ml because it was so lovely :)

Midnight in Cambridge countryside, perfect to carry on writing my YiXing stories in such chill crispy silent night.
I should have done one for answering “the change of value of teapot over my lifetime”, but paused after typing over 600 words: that’s a question too intricate and object to fit into the scale of a single post. The question itself plays the same way as the final moment of “who’s the murder” in Agatha Christie’s novel( big fan!): in order to reveal the answer , you have to follow the entire plot, “talk” to every character, and pay close attention to those tiny drops of evidence that neglected in “forensic”document.

So I decided to sit back to my role, a story teller, a “detective novel”, that gradually mapping out the answers you might wait for YiXing and teapot piece by piece, page by page. Now, shall we?

This part of my YiXing stories might be interesting to those curious about the names behind the seals. Who’s the maker/creator of your teapot? And how come I know ( in person) almost every active teapot crafter/master/dealer? I’ll explain in chronological order in a few following posts.

The truth is, I started “hanging out” with some nowadays high profile teapot crafters since the first day of preschool. If anyone says “that’s ridiculous, did you even develop a memory by that age” I’d force out a smile and politely tell them two fun facts; first, I can’t remember what I had for dinner yesterday but I can recall every moment I’d v spent in that preschool( people insist to call it kindergarten in China, but you know what I mean), second, it was a preschool where famous teapot master and local teachers would send their toddlers to, both having the similarity of tight in parenting time due to the long hours work. Including my parents.
My patents are both teachers of difference grades. The first day to school was so…. Bubbly Fascinating! Every little kid was fighting to leave in their creative tricks, tears and torn napkins and lost shoes all over the place. And among these cheeky monkeys, there were daughters sons grandkids of most teapot artists in Ding Shu ( the sub town most renowned Zisha masters resident). If you print out my preschool graduation ceremony photo and pin a dot to any kid related to teapot crafter/master, there won’t be much blank space left. Apart from me and my bestie(a funny guy who’s now married to a master’s daughter, oh then he didn’t count. Just me as the solo “survivor”)

The entire three years of my preschool was total nightmare to me, bulled by girls older and stronger( I was 1 year younger than other kids and slow learner) , guess that how I hold strong memory of that period. However my suffocating schooling became the best occasion for my parents to get in touch with teapot crafters or their siblings/parents, because they would be gathered at the gate to pick up their monkeys led out by supervisors. Imagine early 1990s in a small sub town in China, where one compound might just luckily share 1 telephone, let alone mobile phones, chatting was the one and only entertainment parents can have when awkwardly herded together. And I never thought that would turn into the prelude of the next chapter about how my mother, a teacher, became my gateway to meet more teapot masters.

Hello, I think this teapot is very beautiful, and I am looking for a zhu ni teapot for brewing oolongs.

https://teahabitat.com/products/yixing-sa-jin-zhuni-red-clay-brian-deng-teapot-160-ml?variant=46595391848739

I know this isn’t on the list of reputable sellers, but I am inclined to trust the owner because of the quality of her teas, and her knowledge.

Can anyone read the seal and tell me if this looks authentic? I would only want to spend this amount if it is indeed authentic and of good quality.

Thanks!

This is a pot for auction that claims to be made by Shi Dabin from the Ming dynasty. I know how exceedingly unlikely that is to be true, but assuming it were, how would one go about authenticating it?

(Also there are no any inside pics or pics of the underside of the lid)

Hi everyone,

I’d really appreciate help identifying the seals on this teapot and getting a general opinion on it. I have a few other Chinese teapots I’d like to research as well, and learning to read these seals myself would be a great starting point.

Here’s what I can describe:

Shape: ribbed / lobed body, looks like a jinwenqi, possibly a Ju Ban Hu or Gua Leng Hu style.
Clay: matte grey-blue, possibly qinghuini (青灰泥) or minguo lü (民国绿).

Seals: one large rectangular seal with multiple columns of seal script (zhuanshu) under the base and inside the lid, plus a smaller oval seal next to it. There is also a seal inside the lid near the air hole.

Filter: single round hole at the spout base.
Origin: inherited from a distant uncle, so I don’t have any background on when or where it was acquired.

I’d love to know:
1. What do the seals actually say? (Artist name, studio, poem, etc.)
2. Does this look like a workshop piece, a semi-handmade pot, or something more serious?
3. Any rough idea of period (modern, 80s-90s, older)?

Photos attached: full pot, base seal, lid seal (outside), lid seal (inside), interior view, spout filter.

Thanks a lot for any insight!

I have two more teapots I’m hoping to identify.

The tiny one I bought in China for I think 10 yuan, I have no reason to believe it’s yixing, but just curious what the seal says/what people can tell about it. I think it might be painted cause there’s a spot on the rim of the lid that looks like it’s chipping. It’s very smooth inside.

My aunt gave me the huge (for gong fu brewing) teapot, which she got as a gift, so no idea what its origin is. I can see a faint seam and there are tooling marks inside. It also has some mica I think. Wondering what the seals say, if it seems legit, and what kind of clays it is made of.

Sorry the pictures aren’t the best, I can take more if needed. Also didn’t realize we need pictures of the filter, I can take more pics in a couple days.