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Chaozhou hand-thrown pot
Traditional 手拉壺Also written 枫溪手拉朱泥壶
A Chaozhou teapot thrown on the wheel by hand from local red clay, rather than built from slabs as in Yixing. The Fengxi craft was added to China's national intangible heritage list in 2014; the record describes nearly sixty steps, simple lines and a smooth, rich surface, and names pear, shuiping, flat-lantern and flat-drum pots as common shapes.
On this page
- 1Knob
- 2Lid
- 3Spout
- 4Handle
- 5Body
- 6Base
Form#
- Knob
- 1wheel-turned round bead (圓珠鈕), flattened button (扁珠鈕), or cylindrical finial pierced with a vertical steam hole
- Lid
- 2wheel-thrown lipped lid (壓蓋) or flush cut lid (截蓋) with a deep inner skirt, ground with wet emery (磨口) after firing to an airtight water-locking seal
- Spout
- 3short straight or one-bend spout thrown on the wheel and luted to the body (安流)
- Handle
- 4slender loop handle pulled and attached after throwing (加柄) opposite the spout
- Body
- 5thrown freehand on a high-speed potter's wheel (手拉坯) with fine concentric interior spiral rings (拉坯螺紋) and trimmed to 1–2 mm wall thickness; classic silhouettes include pear, shuiping, flat lantern (扁灯), and flat drum (扁鼓)
- Base
- 6turned ring foot (圈足) or concave base, stamped with workshop seals such as 「老安順」, 「源興炳記」, or the maker's mark
Working volume#
Use the volume to the intended fill level, rather than the exterior dimensions or shape name. Leave room for the leaves and lid, and choose cups or a serving pitcher that can receive a complete infusion. Two pots of the same named form may have very different working capacities.
Variants and sub-types#
| Name | 中文 | Difference | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egg-bellied Dancong Pot (Edan Hu) | 潮州手拉鹅蛋壶 | High-shouldered ovoid silhouette thrown freehand on the wheel in Fengxi red clay (枫溪红泥), with thin walls (1–2 mm) and a small flush or lipped lid; the tall oval chamber lets long, twisted Phoenix Dancong strips (凤凰单丛) unfurl vertically without jamming the spout. | 13 |
| Chaozhou Hand-thrown Shuiping & Lixing | 手拉水平壶 / 梨形壶 | Wheel-thrown adaptations of classic gongfu Shuiping and Lixing forms identifiable by fine concentric throwing rings (拉坯螺纹) inside the belly and water-ground airtight lid rims (磨口); codified in Chaozhou standards DB4451/T 2—2022 and DB4451/T 4—2023. | 123 |
| Flat-bellied Hand-thrown Pot (Bianfu Hu) | 手拉扁腹壶 / 扁鼓壶 | Low, wide-mouthed wheel-thrown red-clay pot created by centring and compressing the clay cylinder on a high-speed wheel; allows rapid pouring and fast heat release between infusions. | 14 |
History#
- mid- to late Qing (1882)Potters in Fengxi (楓溪), Chaozhou adapt Yixing zhuni gongfu shapes to the local porcelain wheel-throwing technique (手拉坯) using iron-rich local red clay (楓溪紅泥). Two hereditary workshops lead production: Lao Anshun (老安順, founded in Guangxu 8 = 1882 by Zhang Yanming 章燕明) and Yuanxing Hao (源興號, Wu family, stamped 源興炳記).14
- 2014Fengxi hand-thrown zhuni pot making (枫溪手拉朱泥壶制作技艺, nearly sixty steps from clay levigation to wheel-throwing, trimming, luting, firing, and rim-grinding) is inscribed in the fourth batch of China's National Intangible Cultural Heritage (Ⅷ-98), with fifth-generation master Xie Hua (謝華) as national representative inheritor.12
- 2022–2023Chaozhou issues municipal standards DB4451/T 2—2022 (地理標誌產品 潮州手拉朱泥壺) and DB4451/T 4—2023 (潮州工夫茶藝技術規程) codifying material, dimensional tolerances, and 90–150 mL gongfu brewing capacity.3
Attributions are shown as the source states them.
Sources#
- 陶器烧制技艺（枫溪手拉朱泥壶制作技艺） — 881 / Ⅷ-98 (2014, extension) ↗
- 潮州非遗知多少 ↗
- DB4451/T 4—2023 潮州工夫茶艺技术规程（征求意见稿） ↗
- 黃健亮、黃怡嘉《荊溪朱泥：明清宜興朱泥壺研究》 / Jingxi Zhuni: The Study of Yixing Zhuni Teapots During the Ming and Qing Dynasties
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