Handmade Rongtian Yixing Zisha Teapot – Chijin Zini Clay, 140ml
Handmade Rongtian Yixing Zisha Teapot – Chijin Zini Clay, 140ml
This is a 140 ml rongtian teapot in Chijin Zini Clay, fully handmade, made in Dingshu, Yixing. Its Chinese name is 容天.
The clay. A zini with a warm, reddish-gold cast in the fired body, sitting between the classic purples and the red clays. Behaves like zini — porous and rounding — but reads warmer in the hand and under tea light.
The form. The Rongtian form (容天) dates to the contemporary, attributed to Lü Yaochen. From the couplet about Maitreya — a belly big enough to hold what the world cannot. Round, wide and low. Generous capacity and a fast, clean pour. Cheerful rather than austere.
How it was made. Built entirely by hand — the wall is beaten out from a slab and joined without a mould. Inside the body you can still read the tool marks and the joint line, which is how the method is verified.
Size and tea. 140 ml serves two to three people from a single fill, which makes it the most generally useful size on a tea table. Best suited to black tea, ripe pu-erh and roasted oolong.
This pot. Catalogue no. 148, 140 ml, US$85. Photographed individually — the images show the pot you receive.
Made by 胡秀萍. We buy directly from the workshop rather than through a wholesaler, so the attribution comes with the pot.
| Clay | Chijin Zini Clay (赤金紫泥) |
|---|---|
| Form | Rongtian (容天) |
| Capacity | 140 ml |
| Craft | Fully handmade (全手工) |
| Origin | Dingshu, Yixing, Jiangsu, China |
| Catalogue no. | 148 |
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