Pillar base yixing clay woodfired teapot # 94816The exact term "" (literally "pillarbase teapot") is not a standard, widely recorded historical category in major ceramic catalogs, so its precise canonical details are ambiguous. The name, however, clearly evokes an architectural motif the stone or wooden block () that supports a column and the design is best understood as a teapot whose silhouette references that element. Historically, Chinese teapot forms have often borrowed from everyday and