Handmade Chu Piao Yixing Zisha Teapot – Dahongpao Clay, 100ml
Handmade Chu Piao Yixing Zisha Teapot – Dahongpao Clay, 100ml
This is a 100 ml zisha teapot in Dahongpao Clay, fully handmade, made in Dingshu, Yixing. Its Chinese name is 础瓢.
The clay. The top grade of zhuni — an intensely red ore, scarce, and so prone to shrinkage that most of a kiln load is lost. The pots that survive are vivid and even. The most aroma-forward clay in the catalogue. Nothing is absorbed; everything is thrown forward into the cup.
The form. This is the Chu Piao form — 础瓢 in Chinese. It is one of the many shapes carried in the Dingshu workshops outside the small set of canonical forms, and it is built by the same slab-and-beat method as the classics. We describe what we can verify: the ore, the method and the proportions.
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. 100 ml is the classic gongfu size — comfortable for one drinker or two sharing small cups, and the volume most Chaoshan-style brewing was built around. Best suited to dancong, yancha and high-fragrance oolong.
This pot. Catalogue no. 091, 100 ml, US$85. Photographed individually — the images show the pot you receive.
Made by 秦长明. We buy directly from the workshop rather than through a wholesaler, so the attribution comes with the pot.
| Clay | Dahongpao Clay (大红袍) |
|---|---|
| Form | Chu Piao (础瓢) |
| Capacity | 100 ml |
| Craft | Fully handmade (全手工) |
| Origin | Dingshu, Yixing, Jiangsu, China |
| Catalogue no. | 091 |
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