{"id":1459,"date":"2024-11-04T15:36:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teeregen.de\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2024-11-04T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:37:21","slug":"yixing-clay-teapot-duozhi-stacked-vessel-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teeregen.de\/en\/yixing-clay-teapot-duozhi-stacked-vessel-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Teapot Shapes – Duozhi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Teapot king..<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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\u6387\u53ea
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duo zhi
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stacked vessel<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u6387 duo means \u2018to move\u2019 or \u2018to put\u2019 while \u53ea zhi indicates an object or vessel, so a vessel that can be moved or put somewhere. Another explanation is an old large vessel for storing soy sauce or oil named \u6387\u5b50 duozi which inspired the duozhi shape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inventor of the duozhi teapot is \u90b5\u5927\u4ea8 Shao Daheng, so the same as with the Fanggu teapot. If you compare the two styles, you will easily spot similarities in the top half of the teapots. The Duozhi teapot is taller, with an extended bottom part added for stability (and also adhering to the shape of the original vessel it is named after). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is one single famous \u5927\u4ea8\u6387\u53ea Daheng Duozhi named \u58f6\u738b Huwang (\u2018teapot king\u2019) in the Shanghai Sihai \u56db\u6d77 teapot museum. This is one giant mother of all teapots created by teapot master Daheng with a volume of a whopping 2.5l. The title of \u2018teapot king\u2019 is only applied to this one unique Duozhi teapot. The pot is described as \u4e00\u58f6\u5343\u91d1\uff0c \u51e0\u4e0d\u53ef\u5f97 yihu qianjin, jibukede (\u2018one pot of a thousand gold, there cannot be multiples of it\u2019). This teapot king is more than 30cm wide and 20cm tall. The skill to make a giant teapot without flaws out of Yixing clay is unparalleled. Yet the teapot is mighty but still elegant. Rumor has it that someone tried to buy that teapot for 100 million RMB but was rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get yourself some ‚Teapot Shapes I‘<\/a> and ‚Teapot Shapes II‘<\/a> postcards!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n