The ancients said: "Water is the mother of tea, and utensils are the father of tea."
If you are fortunate enough to get a good tea, with good water and good utensils to match, it will naturally complement each other. "The silver pot is the most valuable for boiling water, and the silver pot is the most valuable for making tea." A good silver pot is always in the minds of tea people. "White Moonlight".
On the tea table, a handmade silver pot is placed, which is the finishing touch, like the mountains and rivers reflecting the moon, bright but not dazzling, simple and elegant.
Why is silver expensive for boiling water and tea?
Improve the taste: The ancients said that boiled water in a silver pot is "silk like silk", which means that the water quality is as smooth as silk, which can improve the taste of tea.
Durable: Because compared with "sand soil, porcelain brittleness, iron rust", a handmade silver pot is durable.
Collection and appreciation: Silver pots have been precious since ancient times. They can not only be used for a lifetime, but can also be passed on to future generations as family heirlooms.
9999 sterling silver rattan-handled silver pot, jade pick: about 1L, suitable for making a kettle; this teapot is made of 999 sterling silver, hand-crafted with "one sheet dozen" craftsmanship, the whole silver pot is delicate in texture, uniform in color and bright white , the inner wall is smooth, its value is self-evident.
Note: 999 silver is also called thousand-foot silver, and the content of silver is 99.9%.
"The hand falls into one hammer, and the four hammers form a pattern."
After ten thousand times of manual tempering, a hammered silver pot can be made. Its simple and simple charm, and the uncommon mechanism of fake and inferior pots can be compared to "a dozen", that is, the body of the silver pot, including the bottom and the mouth of the pot, is made of a silver piece. Forging, also known as "silver whole piece", due to the soft texture of silver, it requires the master to hammer hundreds of thousands of times before it can be formed, and the success rate of each silver pot is less than half.
"One dozen" is especially difficult to make at the spout.
Not only the lines of the spout are exquisite, but the transition between the spout and the body should be smooth and natural during the hand-making process. Between the hammer and a dozen, it presents a kaleidoscopic style, such as the fields that are crisscrossed by the qian, and the ripples of the wind blowing the lotus pond, which are free and natural. Note: The hammer pattern originated from the hammering process of gold and silverware and Buddha statues in the Tang Dynasty. After it was passed to Japan, it was renamed the hammer pattern process, which has been carried forward and is still in use today.