Check out Richard Cervantes's appraisal of a Chinese Yixing Clay Teapot, ca. 1840, from Portland, Hour 1. Aired: 04/02/18 Rating: TV-G Buy Now: Buy on iTunes Buy on Amazon ...

Yixing is a small city in east China renowned for a unique type of clay, used for creating fine pottery. The diameter at the teapot's widest point is 1.6 meters.(Photo: CCTV.com) ...

Many Chinese believe that purple clay teapot, or Zisha teapot, is the best because it can bring out the fragrance and flavor of tea. And now an exhibition featuring this magic purple clay teapot ...

Yixing Purple Clay Teapot [Photo from wuxinews.com.cn] The city of Yixing has a pottery-making history of more than 2,400 years, with the Yixing purple clay teapot being the most famous one.

Curtis Smith, associate professor of Chinese language and literature at Grand Valley State University, cradles the unglazed clay teapot from the Yixing village in Jiangsu province near Shanghai ...

China Yixing purple clay pot maker Li Ming (son of Chinese art and craft master Li Changhong) said: “The dragon and phoenix on this royal enamel teapot are very lifelike.

According to centuries of Chinese literati, zisha pots brew a superior cup of tea: Zhou Gaoqi, in the 1640s, wrote that the clay was “perfect for enhancing the colour, aroma and flavour of tea ...

Workers stand next to a building shaped like a clay teapot in the Chinese city of Wuxi. The building, which is still under construction, will house a cultural exhibition hall when it is completed.

BATTLE READY Terra-cotta warriors, built more than 2,200 years ago, stand in the tomb of China’s first emperor. Distributing different clay pastes to specialized workshops enabled the production ...