Handmade Artisan Design Yixing Zisha Teapot – Qing Jiangponi Clay, 130ml
Handmade Artisan Design Yixing Zisha Teapot – Qing Jiangponi Clay, 130ml
This is a 130 ml artisan design teapot in Qing Jiangponi Clay, fully handmade, made in Dingshu, Yixing. Its Chinese name is 梅竹双清.
The clay. The cooler end of the jiangponi seam, firing with a green-grey cast over the warm ground. Same approachable jiangponi character in a quieter colour.
The form. The subject here is bamboo — in Chinese decorative vocabulary, an upright, hollow-hearted humility. 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. 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 light oolong, green tea and white tea.
This pot. Catalogue no. 333, 130 ml, US$550. Photographed individually — the images show the pot you receive.
Made by 张琦. We buy directly from the workshop rather than through a wholesaler, so the attribution comes with the pot.
| Clay | Qing Jiangponi Clay (青降坡) |
|---|---|
| Form | Artisan Design (设计款) |
| Capacity | 130 ml |
| Craft | Fully handmade (全手工) |
| Origin | Dingshu, Yixing, Jiangsu, China |
| Catalogue no. | 333 |
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