On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:02:04 +0900, cc wrote:

"Derek" wrote in message

In the first place, and in hindsight, it's not "most" of the teapots.
At best, it might be a few. And, I'm not sure at this point if they're
yixing or not. It's quit likely that they're Japanese.

It's unlikely. There are no Japanese yixing pots. But the big yixing pots
with iron handles and frame exist, in China and Chinese import stores. They
are not designed for gong-fu. The pots designed for gong-fu are a very very
small minority of the pots on sale in Asia. The others are not "a few". It's
logical there are more large size pots, as the Chinese rarely use pots (they
brew daily tea in glasses or worse) and when they get the pot out of the
cupboard, it's for an occasion, and they need to serve many guests.

Kuri

I didn't mean to suggest that they were Japanese yixing pots. I meant
that the pots I remember seeing were likely Japanese, and not yixing
after all.

--
Derek

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