Liu Fang Si Ting Yixing Zisha Teapot – Zipao Yusha Clay, 150ml
Liu Fang Si Ting Yixing Zisha Teapot – Zipao Yusha Clay, 150ml
This is a 150 ml zisha teapot in Zipao Yusha Clay, hand-carved, made in Dingshu, Yixing. Its Chinese name is 六方思婷.
The clay. Zini blended with fine sand, so the fired body carries visible grain against a settled purple ground — the name means 'purple robe, jade sand'. The sand adds texture without costing breathability. A pot that stays interesting to look at as it ages.
The form. This is the Si Ting form — 思婷 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. 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. 150 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 pu-erh, black tea and roasted oolong.
This pot. Catalogue no. 232, 150 ml, US$750. Photographed individually — the images show the pot you receive.
Made by 刘峰. We buy directly from the workshop rather than through a wholesaler, so the attribution comes with the pot.
| Clay | Zipao Yusha Clay (紫袍玉砂) |
|---|---|
| Form | Si Ting (思婷) |
| Capacity | 150 ml |
| Craft | Hand-carved (刻绘) |
| Origin | Dingshu, Yixing, Jiangsu, China |
| Catalogue no. | 232 |
New to zisha? Read how to season a Yixing teapot before first use.
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