Artisan Design Yixing Zisha Teapot – Jiangponi Clay, 100ml
Artisan Design Yixing Zisha Teapot – Jiangponi Clay, 100ml
This is a 100 ml artisan design teapot in Jiangponi Clay, hand-carved, made in Dingshu, Yixing. Its Chinese name is 福禄景闻.
The clay. Mined from the slope between Huanglong and Qinglong mountains, where red and yellow ores meet — so the fired body carries both, warm and softly mottled. Fine-grained with a gentle sand feel. It polishes to an oily lustre faster than most clays and brews sweet and round.
The form. The subject here is gourd (fu-lu) — in Chinese decorative vocabulary, the same pun, written out: blessing and prosperity. An original design rather than a version of a canonical form. The maker sets the proportions, the line and the ornament. Judged on its own terms rather than against a classical template.
How it was made. Decoration cut into the leather-hard clay by hand with a steel blade, in the Yixing engraving tradition that goes back to Chen Mansheng's collaborations with potters.
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 black tea, light oolong and ripe pu-erh.
This pot. Catalogue no. 444, 100 ml, US$350. Photographed individually — the images show the pot you receive.
Made by 刘秀华. We buy directly from the workshop rather than through a wholesaler, so the attribution comes with the pot.
| Clay | Jiangponi Clay (降坡) |
|---|---|
| Form | Artisan Design (设计款) |
| Capacity | 100 ml |
| Craft | Hand-carved (刻绘) |
| Origin | Dingshu, Yixing, Jiangsu, China |
| Catalogue no. | 444 |
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