Gradient Qin Quan yixing clay woodfired teapot # 94893The Chinese name literally reads Gradient (or Gradual Change) Qin Quan Teapot. The term indicates a surface treatment or glaze effect that shifts gradually in color or tone. The element is ambiguous it can evoke the Qin () dynasty or refer to an ancient weight scale () form and there is no single, universally fixed historical teapot form called Qin Quan in the standard corpus. Because of that ambiguity, the safest reading is that this is a modern or