{"id":1965,"date":"2010-07-20T12:02:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2018-02-06T19:55:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T00:55:17","slug":"small-yixing-teapot-c-1830","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1965","title":{"rendered":"Small Yixing teapot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This tiny, fully functioning pear shaped Yixing teapot is a copy of one made in China in the mid-19th century and measures a mere \u00a02-1\/4&#8243; high by \u00a03-3\/4&#8243; wide. It is not a miniature teapot, as is evident from the tiny hole in lid knob which allows steam to escape. Unlike Western tea drinking, the Eastern method is to drink smaller quantities of tea more frequently throughout the day, which requires smaller teapots to be used<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1966\" title=\"IMG_2202\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2202.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2202-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the delicate handle broke in two places, three small gold cuffs were attached to reinforce the breaks and make the teapot function once again<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2204.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1967\" title=\"IMG_2204\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2204.jpg 372w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2204-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incised marks on the bottom read:\u00a0&#8220;qie xi bei zhong tong meng chen&#8221; which roughly translates to &#8220;this small Meng Chen style pot will absorb the flavor of the tea&#8221;. Although I bought this piece from a London antiques dealer claiming it to be a genuine antique, a knowledgeable reader recently informed me that it was instead a well done copy of an earlier teapot.\u00a0Please see his comment below for more information<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2206.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1968\" title=\"IMG_2206\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2206.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2206-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Yixing teapots were discovered intact during the excavation of the Desaru shipwreck, a Chinese ship with a cargo of ceramics that sank in 1830. The shipwreck was discovered by fishermen in Malaysia in May 2001<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exhibition3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3437\" title=\"Exhibition3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exhibition3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exhibition3.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exhibition3-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mingwrecks.com\">Ming Wrecks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tiny, fully functioning pear shaped Yixing teapot is a copy of one made in China in the mid-19th century and measures a mere \u00a02-1\/4&#8243; high by \u00a03-3\/4&#8243; wide. It is not a miniature teapot, as is evident from the tiny hole in lid knob which allows steam to escape. 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