How much does a purple teapot usually cost to buy a real one? How to use boiling water to identify purple sand teapot teaching

The problem with the purple teapot today is that many indicators lack defining criteria.

There are many articles on how to distinguish between handmade purple teapot, semi-handmade purple teapot and industrial machinery purple teapot. This sentence means that if purple sand artists make efforts to make purple sand teapots by hand or semi-handwork, the quality of the purple sand mud used must be at least reasonable in order to be valuable. The quality of purple sand clay is considered to decline with the decrease of the "manual" level.

This assumption leaves a lot of unanswered questions, even confusion:

Not to mention that there is no objective standard to measure the level of "handwork", and there is no linear correlation between the level of "handwork" and the quality of purple sand clay.

Purple sand teapots made by purple sand artists use different clays. What is the difference in clay quality? Purple sand artists are graded in China according to their experience and skills. However, clay is not universally available-they just use what they think is appropriate in existing clay.)

How about semi-handmade purple sand and all-handmade purple sand? At present, some semi-handmade purple sand on the market, even experienced people can easily see that it is as good as completely handmade purple sand, if not better.

How to treat these teapots by shoddy purple sand artists (folk artists)? Like craftsmen in all traditional products, this skill is handed down by their ancestors. They use purple sand pots accumulated in their backyard to make purple sand teapots-in other words, purple sand teapots are undersold on the market.)

There are still many of the above puzzles that need to be explored.

Ultimate quality control and transparency of information

The only one who seems to have the ultimate control is the maker of purple sand teapot. They decide exactly what a teapot needs and how to make it. In the absence of complete information, it is difficult for consumers to judge the quality at the purchasing end.

For example, at the point of purchase, you can easily see the difference between a $40 teapot and a $400 teapot, and of course, you need a little experience. However, it is not so easy to answer whether a $2000 teapot is worth the price.

The worst-case scenario is that naive tourists shop in shops at tourist attractions. These products are often overdecorated with gaudy designs, mostly from machines. It all depends on how much the merchant wants to charge, because there are no standards to label quality.

Conclusion

Yixing purple sand teapot is very charming. A good thing is definitely worth collecting. However, for most consumers, knowing whether a game has collectible value and how to get a high currency-to-value ratio is a thorny problem.