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-famous ...

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 more ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Since at least the 16th century, potters in China’s eastern Jiangsu province have transformed the local clay into teapots ...

Hu Xuan is a native of Yixing, a city in east China's Jiangsu Province. Yixing is well-known for its exquisite purple clay teapots. Out of her love for Chinese culture, and the culture of Yixing ...