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WE NEED TO SAVE THE FULLY HANDMADE ZISHA TEAPOT ART from the fangs of the Jigger/Jolly Machined fake pots and Half-Handmaking pots, which are masquerading as fully-handmade zisha teapots and hoaxing customers all over the world 🙏🙏🙏
The update from YiXing/China, is that, Jigger/Jolly-Machined pots (机车壶) are displacing Half-Handmade pots (半手工壶) from the market! The reason being such JJ-machining technology has improved tremendously over the past three years, reaching a state whereby it is extremely difficult to tell apart a HHM pot from a JJM pot. The problem is that, JJ-machined pots can never utilise authentic 100% ZiSha in its making, and will ALWAYS involve the use of 1)common ceramic clay (NOT ZiSha) + 2)silica water! Thereby defeating the purposeful pursuit of a ZiSha teapot by an innocent buyer.
The factory owners of JJ-machined pots would instruct their workers to do up the vertical adjoining line in the front and back of the pot’s body inner surface, so as to imitate a HHM pot exactly. Never believe any HHM pots (pots made with moulds) sold thus.
A simple factory can mass manufacture a few hundred JJ-machined pots in a day, compared to, a workshop hiring a few workers to make HHM pots: such a worker can only make at max: 3 HHM pots in a day. (Additional information: it doesn’t take much skill to make a HHM pot, a worker can be trained in 3-4 months and he/she can get be hired)
In the Authentic Industry: an Artist/Craftsman needs a few years to actually know how to make a Fully-Handmade ZiSha Pot.
And he or she would take 2-3 days to complete the making of a basic Austere Shape Fully-Handmade ZiSha pot.
He or she, can at the maximum, make 12 pots maximum a month. (12 x 2.5days = 30days)
Out of the 12 pots, on average, about 9 pots would make it out from the kiln without any:
-cracks,
-deformation,
-malformation,
-excessive 花泥 patches (unintended small 2-6mm diameter patch of clay delimited with a light coloured boundary circular line),
-excessive 铁溶点 (unintended melted big dot of iron, appearing black colour),
-excessive 跳子 (small dot of clay popped out of the clay outer surface leaving behind a dimpled hole on the pot’s surface),
-excessive 爆子 (small dot of clay that almost popped out of the clay outer surface, thus appearing as a pimple)
HOWEVER, WE CAN IDENTIFY IF A POT IS JIGGER/JOLLY-MACHINE MADE OR HALF-HANDMADE:
How?
A HHM pot involves the pressing FROM WITHIN on the inner surface of the clay slab: exerting an OUTWARDS-pressure, against the outer mould holding the slab from the outside.
A JJM pot also involves the swivelling/pressing on the inner surface of the clay slab as well: OUTWARDS-pressure against the outer mould holding the paste/slab.
Consequently, BOTH HHM and JJM pots have EXTREMELY COMPACTED AND SMOOTH inner surfaces of the pot’s body wall !!!
*TO DISGUISE THIS SMOOTHED OUT SURFACE*, the WORKERS at HHM studios or JJM factories, OFTEN do this:
They use a brush to perform a continual sweep from the basal solar lines: laterally onto the side walls, AND UPWARDS….VERY HIGH UP, ALONG THE INNER SIDEWALLS of the pot’s body(slab).
These brush lines thus EFFECTIVELY SMOTHER OVER the compacted and smooth surface of the inner walls of the pot’s body !!!SO THAT YOU CANNOT see the compacted and smoothed out surface of its JJM/HHM origins!!!
THUS IN A HHM or JJM pot, you will WITNESS on the inner surface of the pot’s body wall:
EITHER:
-……compacted and smoothed-out surface,
OR,
-…..brush lines HIGH up from base to mid-height or 3/4 height, meant to disguise the above compacted and smoothed-out surface.
ONE OF THE LAST KNOWN and RELIABLE identifiers of a FULLY-HANDMADE POT 全手工紫砂壶 IS THEREFORE:
{{{[[[ 疏松的泥门 ~ THE FLUFFINESS / looseness and crumbly look of the inner surface of the body walls ]]]}}}
In making the body of a Fully-Handmade ZiSha pot, the Artist/Craftsman would be patting the outer surface of the clay slab into shape.
In so doing, he is applying force from the outside, inwards.
Thus, the inner wall surface would be curved in/ and not pressed with any huge degree of force from the supporting fingers of the other hand.
Because the inner wall surface is largely un-touched,
THE INNER WALL SURFACE is naturally “crumbly”, fluffy.
Dear Friends, learn to recognise the above features of a JJM pot, HHM pot hoaxing customers all over the world, and,
hallmarks of the revered authentic, Fully-Handmade ZiSha pot.
Use this video to help you recognise and get used to the features of a Fully-Handmade pot.
May You and Your Family be Safe, Well and Happy,
~ dr ian.
🎋🎋🎋🎋🎋🎋🎋🎋🎋🎋
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With great thanks to, and,
Music used from, www.FesliyanStudios.com