Hand-made Buddha Duo Zi Yixing Zisha Teapot

Duo is the pronunciation of 掇, as the name of this Duo Zi Teapot. Duo Zi is a container with big mouth, used for containing cooking oils, salt, sauce and other seasoners, often being moved. The word Duo refers to transfer or move.

This Duo Zi Yixing teapot is made from Duanni, with elegant and special shape. The Buddha and Chinese characters hand carved on it makes it exquisite.

Caozhou people like to brew tea with small teapot but the tea is quickly become cold. In order to keep the tea warm, they put the teapot in a big bowl full of hot water. To avoid water inpour into the teapot from the srout, the teapot maker designed this kind of spout upwards.

Laugh Maitreya is hand carved on one side, which make it with deep Zen moral. Chinese character “云水禅心” is hand carved on another side, which means free and leisure all in cloud and water.

Material

This Duo Zi Yixing Teapot is made of Duanni clay and handmade by local seasoned potter who are adept at making purple clay pot.

Duanni is called Lao Tuanni which is common seen in Huanglong Shan, Yixing, Jiangsu Province. Besides being used to make pottery, Duanni also can be grind into fine particles to be used to blend. Being burning Duanni will become yellow in color, with very small amount of red spots. This kind of clay is of loosen and double air hole structure, that leads smooth cross-ventilation. Teapot made of Duanni is such a good choice to enjoy best teas.

Origin

Yixing County, the Pottery Capital of China, has a very long history of pottery making for around 6500 years. Yixing boasts abundant resources of argil, tea, bamboo and charcoal, all of which build the important material resource basis for making pottery. Yixing Zisha products have been awarded many prizes both in home and abroad, some excellent works have been presented as national gifts in international communications.