Auspicious Han Tile yixing clay woodfired teapot # 94868The exact form name "" (xiangrui han wa) is not widely documented in standard teapot typologies, so its identification is somewhat ambiguous. Literally it reads auspicious propitious Han tile, which suggests a teapot inspired by Han dynasty roof or floor tiles and decorated or named with auspicious symbolism. In Chinese ceramic practice, potters have long borrowed shapes and motifs from architecture and antiquity: since the Song and Ming periods,