Yixing Purple Clay Teapot. [Photo provided to chinadaily.fcom.cn] Tools for Yixing Purple Clay Teapot. [Photo provided to chinadaily.fcom.cn] The city of Yixing has a pottery-making history of ...

Art master Bao Yumei works on a purple clay teapot. [Photo provided to Chinaculture.org] The Yixing zisha, or the purple clay teapot, originated during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), is world ...

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) The clay is ...

The collection features exceptionally beautiful and rich designs, unique colors and patterns, and is made from several clay types of the Yixing region. The teapots carefully selected by Tam were ...

But the purple clay reserves have been nearly depleted by the teapot making. Therefore, the Yixing government prohibited further clay quarrying in 2005. As a result, some local factories began ...

The clay is reputedly free of toxic minerals such ... if a drinker continuously makes a particular type of tea in a Yixing teapot, pouring hot water into it alone would be enough to get a strong ...