Handmade Xing Shi Yixing Zisha Teapot – Jiangponi Clay, 130ml
Handmade Xing Shi Yixing Zisha Teapot – Jiangponi Clay, 130ml
This is a 130 ml zisha teapot in Jiangponi Clay, fully handmade, made in Dingshu, Yixing. Its Chinese name is 醒石.
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. This is the Xing Shi form — 醒石 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. 130 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, light oolong and ripe pu-erh.
This pot. Catalogue no. 226, 130 ml, US$550. Photographed individually — the images show the pot you receive.
Made by an independent Dingshu potter working outside the titled-master system. We do not attach a name we cannot verify.
| Clay | Jiangponi Clay (降坡) |
|---|---|
| Form | Xing Shi (醒石) |
| Capacity | 130 ml |
| Craft | Fully handmade (全手工) |
| Origin | Dingshu, Yixing, Jiangsu, China |
| Catalogue no. | 226 |
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