Handmade Lian Hua Yixing Zisha Teapot – Luni Clay, 140ml
Handmade Lian Hua Yixing Zisha Teapot – Luni Clay, 140ml
This is a 140 ml zisha teapot in Luni Clay, fully handmade, made in Dingshu, Yixing. Its Chinese name is 莲花.
The clay. Red from its iron content but without zhuni's intensity. More abundant, more stable, and easier to form, which is why it turns up across so many classic shapes. Lifts fragrance without flattening the body of the tea — the balance point between zini's depth and zhuni's brightness.
The form. This is the Lian Hua form — 莲花 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. 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, roasted oolong and red tea.
This pot. Catalogue no. 066, 140 ml, US$101. Photographed individually — the images show the pot you receive.
Made by 李辉. We buy directly from the workshop rather than through a wholesaler, so the attribution comes with the pot.
| Clay | Luni Clay (绿泥) |
|---|---|
| Form | Lian Hua (莲花) |
| Capacity | 140 ml |
| Craft | Fully handmade (全手工) |
| Origin | Dingshu, Yixing, Jiangsu, China |
| Catalogue no. | 066 |
New to zisha? Read how to season a Yixing teapot before first use.
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