🪹 Pottery Collecting
Another level of bonsai appreciation is in use or collecting quality Japanese and Chinese pottery.
Distinguishing qualities and marks can help verify the maker and provenance.
"Bonsai" (盆栽)
The seal is associated with Chinese Yixing pottery, known as Zisha or "purple sand".
Yixing ware is unglazed stoneware made from rich clay deposits in the hills around the town of Yixing in Jiangsu Province, China.
宜興 = Yixing, Jiangsu Province, China
紫砂 = zisha, the characteristic Yixing purple-clay ceramic
中國宜興 = China/Yixing, essentially an origin or factory/production mark
Aoyagi Suihō (青柳翠峰)
