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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 406064, member: 2844&quot;]Welcome to Antiquers, Per.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another site with Yixing marks:</p><p><a href="http://litaxulingkelley.blogspot.com/p/yixing-teapot-makers-marks.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://litaxulingkelley.blogspot.com/p/yixing-teapot-makers-marks.html" rel="nofollow">http://litaxulingkelley.blogspot.com/p/yixing-teapot-makers-marks.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The value of Yixing teapots lies in several things.</p><p>One of them is the balanced shape, there should be a straight line from the handle to the top of the pot and the spout. If you were to put a ruler on top of these three, it should lie comfortably and be supported by all three.</p><p>The lid should fit perfectly.</p><p>Damage decreases the value.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/redface.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Collectible shapes.</p><p>A good maker. It is often difficult to identify the maker, in the West we have to rely on records in books and on sites like the one Bakers and I mentioned.</p><p>From the start it should have been treated in the proper way.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is what [USER=4494]@Asian Fever[/USER] wrote in another thread:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Another way to ID whether it is a traditional chinese tea pot:</p><p>filled with hot water in the tea pot 1/2 to 2/3 full. hold this small hole with your finger and pour it. you will find when you hold it, it won&#039;t drip even a drop, when you lease your finger, water flows smoothly. However, when you hold that hole, it should stop immediately.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good YiXing tea pot is very rare even in China, it should breath well, and for an old Yixing tea pot, the person who have it should &quot;raise&quot; it as a baby, use it for serving tea everyday and very gently. In Chinese culture, we say an old YiXing tea pot should has a spirit it accompany with the right person(who cares for it) for a long time.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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