The difference between semi-manual and full-manual teapots

The differences between semi-manual and full-manual teapots are as follows:

Difference:

Both are made of local purple sand in Yixing. The hand-made teapot is completely made of mud blocks, and the molding of its cylinder depends entirely on manpower. The modeling of teapot depends entirely on the producer's experience and feeling, which is slow, inefficient and expensive, but it can directly reflect the producer's ingenuity and technological level.

All-handmade teapots need many tools, and the molding is dominated by people:

Semi-manual teapot is formed by pressing with the help of mold, and the shape of its cylinder mainly depends on the mold, and its external size is limited by the mold. Once the mold is determined, the appearance of the finished teapot is basically the same, with fast manufacturing speed and high efficiency, and the cost is relatively low compared with manual operation.

Semi-manual teapot molding mainly depends on the mold:

In addition, there are fake teapots, which are grouting, molding and drawing. According to national standards, the latter three do not belong to the category of teapot, but can only be regarded as pottery pots, and their clay materials and manufacturing techniques are obviously different from those of real teapot.

The value embodiment of teapot;

1, academic value

The teapot has high academic value, because the investigation of the surviving modern purple pottery heritage, combined with the process analysis of archaeological unearthed purple pottery and handed down purple pottery, proves that the techniques, techniques and characteristics of this process have been well preserved. Yixing Zisha pottery, which has been handed down to this day, is a "living fossil" of culture, and has important historical value for studying the connotation and cultural history of China traditional pottery.

2. Cultural values

China has a long history of ceramic technology and cultural tradition, which has been handed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years and has a long and distinctive local characteristics. There is no similar system in China or even in the world. It has the value of reflecting the superb national craft level.

Zisha pottery has unique materials and processing skills. Artists make their own artistic processing tools, using various modelling technique such as scraping, cutting, pinching and pushing. In decoration, they also absorbed the essence of China traditional culture, such as poems, books, paintings and seals. The modeling language is rich, and there are many kinds of objects, which are both practical and artistic, and truly reflect the superb technological level.