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Yìng Biǎn Hú
Flat, bold, and built to impress your tea shelf.
The Ying Bian Hu, or 'Hard Flat Pot,' is a study in satisfying geometric tension — its wide, flattened body sits low and bold, like a flying saucer that decided to stay for tea. Despite its compressed shape, it pours with surprising grace, a testament to the skill required to balance form and function in Yixing clay. It's the kind of teapot that looks almost too architectural to use — until you do, and then you never want to stop.
Crafting a flattened teapot like the Ying Bian Hu is actually harder than making a round one — the compressed shape demands perfect symmetry and structural integrity, since any weakness in the clay walls becomes immediately obvious in the final form.
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化 神 傈石 ，即柱础，地基上面安放柱子的石役，在中国传统砖木结构建筑 中用以负荷和防潮，对防止建筑物塌隐有着不可蔡代的作用 。宋李诚《营造 法式 》第三卷记载 :“柱础，其名有六,一目础，三日硕 ,三昌秃 ，四日跨 ， 五日碱,， 六日便，今谓之石古。”傈石有鼓型 、瓜型 、花瓶型 、宫灯型 、六 锤型 、须弥座型等多种式样 “古遍过”为顾景舟晚期作品 ，身简模仿鼓型碌石造型 ，肩周径略宽于 底部，身简略呈斜直状向底部收敛，故在视觉上凸显了壶肩的张力。颈 、流 均为直式，力道十足 。盖的造型别具一格，在平盖的基础上略微向上凸起 ， 使整个过的重心略微上移，增加了造型的均衔感，同时 ，盖微微凸起使得整 个过有一种充气感， 饱满有气度 。 “硬扁过”整体呈现硬朗质朴的特征 ，仅做一件 ，可见是顾景舟精雕细 琢的大看之作 。