Bamboo Sculptural Form Yixing Zisha Teapot – Qing Duanni Clay, 60ml
Bamboo Sculptural Form Yixing Zisha Teapot – Qing Duanni Clay, 60ml
This is a 60 ml bamboo sculptural form teapot in Qing Duanni Clay, partially handmade, made in Dingshu, Yixing. Its Chinese name is 竹桩.
The clay. Duanni with a cool green-grey cast, closer to the green-clay end of the family. Open and clean; suits fresh, unroasted teas.
The form. The subject here is bamboo — in Chinese decorative vocabulary, an upright, hollow-hearted humility. Naturalistic work — huaqi — takes its subject from the living world: gourds, pine, bamboo, lotus, fruit, animals. It descends directly from Gongchun's tree-burl pot, the founding object of the craft. Each piece is modelled and carved rather than turned, so no two come out the same.
How it was made. Formed with the help of a mould for the body, with the spout, handle, lid and finishing worked by hand. A well-made half-handmade pot is a good pot; the difference is in labour, not in whether it brews well.
Size and tea. At 60 ml this is a solo pot. One person, short infusions, and the small volume means you can push a good leaf through eight or ten steeps without ever brewing more than you drink. Best suited to green tea, raw pu-erh and white tea.
One honest note on duanni-family clays: because the body is pale and very open, dark and heavily roasted teas can leave uneven marks if the pot is handled with oily hands or left wet. Rinse it, dry it, and keep it to lighter teas and it will come up beautifully.
This pot. Catalogue no. 012, 60 ml, US$200. Photographed individually — the images show the pot you receive.
Made by 韩传杰. We buy directly from the workshop rather than through a wholesaler, so the attribution comes with the pot.
| Clay | Qing Duanni Clay (青段泥) |
|---|---|
| Form | Bamboo Sculptural Form (竹仿生器) |
| Capacity | 60 ml |
| Craft | Partially handmade (半手工) |
| Origin | Dingshu, Yixing, Jiangsu, China |
| Catalogue no. | 012 |
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