Vintage Yixing Teapot #77 Late 80's Red Clay ShuiPing Teapot 80ml Tea Tasting All pieces in this series

All pieces in this series carry the soft

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meticulously refined to perfection

develop a soft sheen and become more integrated with the tea oils and seasonings

the leaves have accumulated the peak of their aromatic compounds

Vintage Yixing Teapot #77 Late 80's Red Clay ShuiPing Teapot 80ml Tea Tasting All pieces in this seriesYixing Red Clay Shuiping Teapot, Homage to 1960s Factory One (late 1980s, 80ml) This shuiping () teapot was made in the late 1980s outside the state factory system, as a faithful homage to the celebrated 1960s Factory One red clay shuiping pots. And it is a genuinely good one: the workmanship is crisp and disciplined, and the red clay (hongni ) is of notably fine quality for its period, well above typical commercial output of the time. The base