🫖 Ba Le-Guava LQER

🔎 A gorgeous handmade guava teapot from the PRC (~1880-1930). Inside the body there is a perpendicular joint line from rolling a sheet of clay into a cylinder, a clear trace from gluing the bottom and neck. The rim of the lid is more clearly visible, since it was not rubbed. A typical late Qing imitation of the early Qing execution.

🧱 Hong Ni clay with coarse grain, where pores and grain are visible at an arm's length.

✨ The lid was repaired using the traditional Japanese kintsugi technique: a layer of kokuso, sabi urushi, two layers of black and one layer of red lacquer with bronze powder. The body of the teapot was repaired in the same way. There were several cracks of different origins on the rim of the teapot: one near the handle - a chip, the others - a kiln crack.

🧂 Each teapot with a single hole is equipped with a filter-nest made of food-grade stainless steel.