Water Chestnut Purple Clay Teapot

The water chestnut purple clay teapot is handmade from original ore purple clay, and inspired by water chestnuts. Its mellow and elegant shape gives people a healthy, mature and friendly touch. With unique techniques and artistic exaggeration, makes the details of the water chestnut is vivid and natural, it showed the complexity and simplicity, and the unity of static and dynamic. The water chestnut teapot is small and delicate, it can be held with one hand, put it in the palm and observe carefully, it is interesting. The shape is simple, but the curvature and every details are carefully made to produce a lifelike shape of water chestnut, making it lovely and durable. In the process of design and production, the processing of details and the shaping of the spirit are time-consuming and laborious, it reflecting the excellent craftsmanship of the craftsman. You can use it to brew tea, and for display or collection. Although the water chestnuts come from the mud, but its inside is pure and noble. It has the meaning of pure, auspice and blessing.

The teapot has rigorous workmanship, the lines are smooth and natural, with a vivid appearance, the slender handle matches the teapot very well, it offer a comfortable grip. Making tea is easy, the teapot has built-in filter holes for fast filtration, and the spout pouring water is smooth, cut the water clean and neat. The teapot with fine purple clay, good air permeability and high stability, let you enjoy the tea ceremony perfectly. It is both a practical teapot and an elegant handicrafts collection. The more you use, the purple clay teapot will be more and more oily and bright, and the hand feeling will be warm and moist like jade.

· Made of: Yixing Purple Clay (紫砂).
· Size: 100 ml or 3.38 oz, Length 10.2 cm (4"), Height 5.9 cm (2.32").
· Teapot Maker:

Jiang Jingming is a Chinese ceramist and a member of the Chinese Society of Arts and Crafts. Born in 1965 in Yixing City, he was influenced by the profound and long purple clay culture, he has a strong interest in purple clay since childhood. In 1982, he engaged in pottery creation, and study ceramic modeling design in the Academy of Arts and Crafts. His master is Fan Yongliang, a master of ceramic art in Jiangsu Province. He focus on learning purple clay technology. Under the guidance of famous teachers, and study and practice hard, his craft techniques become higher and more skilled, and his works pursue beautiful shape and smooth lines. In spirit and verve, both inherit the tradition and focus on innovation, it reflecting the elegant temperament and profound cultural heritage. He is good at full handmade, and his works "Lotus Pot", "Love Pot" and "Junzhu Pot" have won the third prize of Yixing Pottery Festival for three consecutive times, and other works have been collected by many museums, and are favored by pot art lovers and collectors at home and abroad.