Wang Chao Hong is an artist who makes tea pots in the Yixing style. She learnt from a master, doing an 8 year apprenticeship. It can take days to make a tea pot.
Tea pots here are not made on a wheel or using coils. A slab of clay is pounded and rolled out and the teapot is cut and shaped from this. It is very precise work and is fascinating to watch.
There would be 80 or more beautiful, tools used, made mostly of wood, some of brass and some of (I think) ox horn.
Below, drinking tea with Wang Chao Hong in her beautiful studio
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