Mike 12/3/06


> On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:33:45 GMT, Michael Plant >
> wrote:
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>> <http://www.chineseclayart.com/mall/c110/s25729/galleries_store.asp?c=Teapot>
>> Looks like a fun place to visit, with classes and exhibitions.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for posting it. The wood and bamboo types are
>> my favorite styles to hate. In fact, I can safely say
>> I really enjoy hating them. Not only that, I have worked
>> at looking down my nose at people who like them. Then,
>> a friend of mine -- mutual friend of ours -- bought one,
>> and I actually saw it in the flesh. It was very well
>> balanced and constructed, the bamboo bits did not
>> compete dispicably with the tea, and I actually liked
>> it. So, humble pie, visited yet again.
>
> Speaking, presumably as the "mutual friend", the pot Michael speaks of
> can be seen at http://www.pu-erh.net/toolfull.php?Tool=9 . I use it
> exclusively for shu-pu and it has been raising quite nicely over the
> last two years. It is slip cast and then exquisitely hand detailed,
> the bark is layered on after the casting but before the firing and
> since the extensive detailing is all hand done no two pots are the
> same. The darn things look like real wood, the pictures just don't do
> them justice.

Yup, you the man, and that's the pot. Picture does not do it justice.

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Michael