Antique-style octagonal yixing clay woodfired teapot # 94848The name literally means antiquestyle eightsided teapot. It indicates an octagonal, antiqued or reproduction form rather than necessarily pointing to one single canonical historic modelso the exact traditional prototype can be ambiguous. General historical context: Small, wellfitted teapots with pronounced geometric profiles have been part of Chinese tea culture since at least the Ming and Qing periods. Craftsmen in the Yixing (Zisha) tradition are