Zisha Dui Ni – Oriole and Wintersweet – Handmade Yixing Zini Raw-ores Zisha Tea Cup

Contraction ratio: 11%

Introduction:

Zisha Dui Ni, colored clay laying painting is a school of techniques that combines Chinese painting with Zisha clay. It is different from pottery carving, but it is really painted on the teapot body, Zisha and colored clay pile painting. The art of pile painting of Zisha colored clay began in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty. It takes different colored clay as ink, based on traditional Chinese painting techniques, and uses knives and pens to pile and draw on the potter body with a certain humidity. Relying on the thickness of clay and the performance effects of different colors of clay, it can show the charm and artistic conception of Chinese traditional pen and ink. Like bas-relief, it has a distinct sense of layers, elegant taste and far-reaching artistic conception.

Purple-clay Zisha 紫砂 [zǐ shā] is famous of high in iron and silicon contents, featuring high plasticity, the glossier surface the more useages of brewing tea. Tea sets made from purple-clay is not normally glazed. A finished product is primarily purple, thus it is named. This pottery can be divided into different colors, such as purple-brown „purple clay“ which is in amaranth or light purple; gray-yellow „green clay“ in gray or gray-blue; vermeil „red clay“ in red-brown. Purple-clay tea set has a long history in China. Su Shi, the great scholar of the Song Dynasty, had designed a pot with handle, called „Dongpo Pot with Loop Handle“. In the Ming Dynasty, making loose tea in a small pot was popular, which led to the development of purple-clay pots.