🫖 Mastercraft Shui Ping 40 ml 1970s

🔎 This teapot is a representative of the first series of tasting Shui Pings of Factory No 1. The volume in the catalog is marked as 二杯 / 1杯 , that is, for 2 bowls (2X20ml) and 1 bowl (1x30ml), according to Taiwanese and mainland measures, respectively. In other words, 30 ml. Also, according to the catalog, this teapot is a complete match for the details of the forms/

🌀 Under the lid is the stamp Yu Qin 玉勤 - the pseudonym of the master Shi Yuqin 史玉琴 . In November 1956, Factory No 1 recruited a second group of students to learn the craft, Shi Yuqin, as part of the second group of 15 people, was trained by the founding master Wu Yungen 吴云根. Later, she herself began working at the Factory. That is, the master of the first releases of the Factory since the Freedom Period.

🍷 Such microdosers are intended for tastings, Chaozhou tea drinking, as well as as a tool for drinking tea, when you need to maximally reveal the taste from a small weight of dry tea. Chaozhou tea drinking: dark oolong (more often) fills the entire volume of the teapot, pours boiling water over it and immediately drains it. For tastings, you can use a longer exposure, as well as for tea drinking with a small weight of tea. In any case, this teapot gives a completely different taste experience even for tea that is very familiar to you.

🧱 Qing Shui Ni clay, traditionally processed, coarse-grained and porous.

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