Handmade Fanggu Yixing Zisha Teapot 450ml

Fanggu, written in Chinese as 仿古 (fǎng gǔ), is originally know as another phrase: 仿鼓 (fǎng gǔ). 仿鼓 means the teapot is modelled after the appearance of drum. This style started since Qing Dynasty. Till now people still make this teapot by imitating its old crafting style. So it is renamed as 仿古, meaning making the teapot in an antique style.

The capacity of this teapot is 450ml; the large space allows the tea leaves to fully stretch and release their aroma. The teapot body is decorated with Chinese characters and a painting bird, very vivid and chic. Fanggu teapot always gives us a feeling of dignity and stability for its flat body, round belly and wide tea spout.

Made of Zhuni, this Handmade Yixing Zisha Teapot appears in red color with a light orange hue and looks fine and smooth. The teapot is simple and unadorned yet elegant and quaint. The teapot presents distinctive double pore surface covered with tiny corrugations on it, which makes the teapot able to breathe and reserves fragrance of tea.

Note: Warm the teapot before pouring boiling water promptly into it, for Zhuni has high constriction percentage, cannot resist instant temperature change.

Yuan Ting, born in Zisha village of Yixing, is not only good at the design and creation of Zisha Teapot, but also forms a style that combines reality and tradition. Therefore, her works are elegant and graceful, simple and quaint. She uses the excellent materials when making the teapot. While inheriting the tradition, she makes a bold innovation in her unique personal style.

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.