• Bamboo Yixing zisha Handuo teapot, hand-carved bamboo and calligraphy, 250ml
  • Bamboo Yixing zisha teapot, three-quarter view showing the Handuo bell knob
  • Hand-carved bamboo on a Yixing purple clay Handuo teapot, held in hand
  • Bamboo Yixing zisha teapot pouring tea into a glass fair cup
  • Top view of the Bamboo Handuo teapot showing the bell-shaped knob and lid
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“The Noble Bamboo” Handcraft Chinese Yixing Clay Teapot

“The Noble Bamboo” Handcraft Chinese Yixing Clay Teapot

$250.00
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The Noble Bamboo is a 250ml Yixing teapot in the Handuo form: an upright body with a tall bell-shaped knob, named after an old Han-dynasty bell. The clay is zini, the classic purple clay from Yixing, hand-carved on both sides, with bamboo across one face and a few lines of calligraphy on the other.

In Chinese art bamboo is one of the "Four Gentlemen," a plant that stands for quiet integrity. The carved verse is a Song-dynasty line on that idea: bamboo forms its nodes (the same word means integrity) before it breaks ground, and keeps a hollow, humble heart even as it grows toward the clouds.

Inside the spout is a cluster of small holes, punched by hand, so the pot pours fast and holds the leaf back. Zisha is porous: keep the pot to one kind of tea, and over months of use it seasons, and the tea comes through rounder and deeper. This shape suits darker teas, like aged pu-erh or a roasted oolong.

Each pot is signed, and comes as a gift set with two maker's certificates: one from the potter who made it, one from the artisan who carved it. A piece to keep, or to give.

In the gift set

  • Bamboo zisha teapot, 250ml
  • Two maker's certificates (potter and carver, in Chinese)
  • Gift box, brocade pouch

The details

  • Zini (Yixing purple clay)
  • Hand-carved bamboo, with calligraphy on the reverse
  • Handuo form, 250ml, sized for gongfu brewing
  • Multi-hole mesh spout, hand-punched
  • Seasons to your tea with regular use; suited to darker teas
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