Jin Zhong – Taoist Golden Bell – Carved Handmade Yixing Huang-Zhuni Zisha Purple-clay Teapot 140ml

Carving is one of the traditional decorative techniques of Zisha. The so-called carving, which adopts a “carving” technique, originally refers to the meaning of hollowing out in the shape of objects. Zisha carving is different from double-layer and single-layer. On the double-layer or single-layer blank body, it first designs and plans the patterns needed by the artist, and makes a reasonable layout. No matter the characters, landscapes, calligraphy and poetry content, it can achieve the ideal effect according to the artist’s design requirements. It is novel and unique, ingenious and lifelike, exquisite and vivid. It is also one of the best Zisha decorations.

Purple-clay 紫砂 [zǐ shā] is famous of high in iron and silicon contents, featuring high plasticity, the glossier surface the more useages of brewing tea. Tea sets made from purple-clay is not normally glazed. A finished product is primarily purple, thus it is named. This pottery can be divided into different colors, such as purple-brown “purple clay” which is in amaranth or light purple; gray-yellow “green clay” in gray or gray-blue; vermeil “red clay” in red-brown. Purple-clay tea set has a long history in China. Su Shi, the great scholar of the Song Dynasty, had designed a pot with handle, called “Dongpo Pot with Loop Handle”. In the Ming Dynasty, making loose tea in a small pot was popular, which led to the development of purple-clay pots.