Only with good tea and good utensils can you live up to the good mood of enjoying tea. Before the tea soup has even entered the mouth, a unique piece of tea utensils often satisfies our eyes before our mouth is full. Anyone who likes teahouse aesthetics knows that utensils on tea seats are relatively rare, especially small and elegant ones. Weapons are even rarer.
The "Six-square Palace Lantern" introduced to you today is such a delicate, elegant and rare small square vessel. It was created with great ingenuity by Zhouyuqi, a talented young ceramic artist from Yixing.
Zhou Yu Qi studied under many famous square pot masters. Based on his understanding of Kung Fu tea culture and combined with his own attainments, he focuses on "square pot sketches" in creation. Different from the common square pots on the market, teacher Zhou Yu Qi's works are small and light. , elegant and elegant in shape, unique in style. Zisha square ware has become a beautiful style. If the traditional square ware is like an upright warrior, then the square ware sketch in the hands of Teacher Zhou is more like a gentle scholar with a majestic heart and a pen as a knife.
This six-square teapot is based on the six-square palace lantern teapot made by Shi Dabin, a master of purple sand. The body of the pot is delicate and elegant, with six raised edges, which adds to the strength of the whole pot. The three-bend teapot has an even thickness, and the square ear ring handle is tall and delicate. Together with the slightly upward protruding neck, the whole pot looks dignified and beautiful, with noble literary meaning. The so-called six-square pot "six sides in one hand, six sides everywhere". The traditional six-square pot has details: such as the pot knob, spout, handle and The bottoms of the pots are all hexagonal in shape.
Mud has always been the basis of purple clay teapots. Good clay makes it easier for the pot to have a warm and jade-like texture. The vermilion clay used in this pot is a rather delicate variety among many clay materials. The raw ore vermilion clay from Huanglong Mountain is small in quantity and high in quality. , it is difficult to bake and the yield is also low. The body of the pot is dense and smooth, and its delicate texture is easy to soak and maintain, and it is easy to show the beauty of patina. The small capacity of 90cc is suitable for one or two people to enjoy drinking.