Ru Piao Yixing Zisha Teapot – Ziyu Jinsha Clay, 180ml
Ru Piao Yixing Zisha Teapot – Ziyu Jinsha Clay, 180ml
This is a 180 ml zisha teapot in Ziyu Jinsha Clay, hand-carved, made in Dingshu, Yixing. Its Chinese name is 乳瓢.
The clay. A sanded zini with golden flecks suspended in a purple body — the classical literary name for zisha itself, used here for a blend that shows the effect plainly. Reads as zini in use, with a livelier surface.
The form. This is the Ru Piao form — 乳瓢 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. At 180 ml this fills three or four cups at once — enough for guests without moving to a full teapot. Best suited to pu-erh and black tea.
This pot. Catalogue no. 171, 180 ml, US$60. Photographed individually — the images show the pot you receive.
Made by 刘群. We buy directly from the workshop rather than through a wholesaler, so the attribution comes with the pot.
| Clay | Ziyu Jinsha Clay (紫玉金砂) |
|---|---|
| Form | Ru Piao (乳瓢) |
| Capacity | 180 ml |
| Craft | Hand-carved (刻绘) |
| Origin | Dingshu, Yixing, Jiangsu, China |
| Catalogue no. | 171 |
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