Dear Tea Friends,

I have just broken my very first Yi Xing tea pot. It (or let us say, she?)
has not lived a long life: after less than a year's faithful service the lid
has been broken. It is almost beyond me, how it could happen, as I always
treated it very carefully. Nevertheless yesterday while wiping the lid with
a piece of tissue paper I happened to drop it on the table. It reached the
table after a very short free fall of only 20 centimeters (about 8 inches).
It was inmediately broken into two halves, with many small, glass-like
splinters besides the half pieces; the fragments did not look like regular
clay at all, but much more like glass. - Suddenly I also remembered that I
managed to chip the brim of the lid on the very first day I used it, again
by dropping it on the table, but from a lesser height.

All this made me wonder whether all yi xing wares are as fragile, rigid and
glass-like like the one I have, needing very cautious care, or I am just the
unhappy owner of a pot of lesser quality? I bought it from one of the more
reputable online vendors. According the original description it is blue
Zisha mixed mildly with yellow clay.

Thanks,
Gyorgy Sajo