A Small Army

Glamour Shots
Look at em, hamming it up for the camera.

A close up of the small spout. The reason for brewing some killer oolong?
A superb job of burnishing the clay, no noticable seams, at least as far as I can see.

The artists seal or chop mark, hand made by Zhao Ming Min

More chop marks, their all over the place
This pot has a very clear high pitched ring when tapping the lid against the body.

After two years of regular use this pots just starting to get a healthy layer of oolong grunge built up inside.

This Zhuni is one of my most used Yixing. As Ive said before, this pot is magic. Used exclusively for Taiwan and Anxi green oolongs. It,s capacity is about 8.5 oz. or so. Ive written about this pot before, it,s intended use is for oolongs and the supposed main feature of this pot is it,s small spout which forces an extended steeping time by means of it,s slow pour. I dont really think that has anything to do with it,s ability to brew good tea. It,s just a really well made pot and made from high quality Zhuni clay.


A lot of these other Yixing are getting packed up and put away for the summer. How do you know when you have too many? I try to stop myself from buying any more of em, but I cant help it sometimes. With the exception of a couple of pots for puerh I think the majority of these are going to get neglected through the summer. Poor little guys, just when they were getting their hopes up.




Oh how the mighty have fallen. Summer is coming and I dont love you anymore.
Believe it or not but Ive got more than this, these are just the ones I actually use.


Going through all of these pots should work out to be a good thing as it,s an opportunity for me to catalog all of them. Who made them, what type of clay, when they were made and so on. So in a big way me posting about these pots is kinda more about me than the tea community. Something I should have done a long time ago but just never got around to it.