Recently bloused through Baidu's site on the latest news related to Yixing teapots and potters and found this posting. A famous teapot grands-master, Wang Yinxien passed away in March this year due to illness, aged 75. Just recently, I was watching a video clip in the U-tube on her life and the teapots she made over the years. She came from a humble beginning and rose above the rank to become a national grand-master in teapot.
Wang was no ordinary potter in Yixing. She was awarded the national Grand-master title in 2007. Her works have been collection items in many museums both locally and around the world.
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| Wang and her most famous teapot, Curved Pot |
Wang was famous with this Curved Pot, a design created by Prof Zhang and made by Wang. I had a chance to meet her in the 90s when she came to Singapore to exhibit this teapot. There were two Taiwanese who followed her all the way to Singapore just to bid for this one. Eventually one of them bought it for US$20k. The organizer of the event, a close friend of mine, told me that he had to engage an Indian Money Exchanger to authenticate all the big notes as Banks refused to do so. It was a lot of money then. Of course, today the teapot can fetch millions in auction markets.
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| Brochure of the event held in Singapore |
Wang's other famous works include:
My friends visited her in the 90s and she gave me an autographed publication on her teapots.
She was such a talented and gifted potter. Her passing is a loss in the world of Yixing ware. We will miss her.
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