TPT26: 115USD/unit
Capacity:. about 200ml
1unit: 1 teapot as 1unit
Clay: Qinzhou Nixing Pottery
Gift & Safe Package weight: about 0.8 KG 
 
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Qinzhou Nixing Pottery was originally known as Yue Pottery (together with Jiangsu Yixing Pottery, have been long known as Wu Pottery and Yue Pottery respectively). It was said that Nixing Pottery was rather delicate and famous during the middle of the Qing Dynasty. The native southerners in Guangxi and Guangdong loved to say "Shixing (popular)". Qinzhou potteries at that time were made of clay. "Nixing" meant that Qinzhou clay-made potteries were well received by people at that time. Thus, the word "Nixing" were widely spread among the people.

Nixing Pottery, with the scientific name of purple clay pottery, is mainly made of strictly-selected purplish red cinnabar clay that only exists in Qinzhou. The clay is made by mixing western soft clay with eastern hard clay at the proportion of six to four. Nixing Pottery has a fine, hard and firm texture and clangorous tone. It varies in forms, so the art of decorating usually include carving, engraving and scraping. Artisans carve, engrave and scrape flowers, figures, mountains and rivers on pottery blank, and smooth it with white clay and reddish-brown clay, then fire it under high temperature, and remove the oxide on the surface of the fired pottery and then polish it to form a delicate white pottery with red flowers or a delicate red pottery with white flowers. There is amazing changes in the process of furnace transmutation: sometimes few blanks will faintly turn bronze, mauve, livid, gold and blackish green from iron red. Besides, there are also some changes in such lines as sky stripe and tiger stripe which will be fully showed after polishing. So just as the saying goes, "It is hard to get one treasure from fire"; "There is no two treasures that are totally the same". People call the potteries "Nixing treasures" which have high value of collection.
 

Unglazed is the great characteristic of Qinzhou Nixing Pottery, of which decoration is made by engraving. Nixing potteries can be polished to shine or bring out the color while other potteries can not use this method. The clay used for Nixing potteries only exists in Qinzhou. In addition, the process for making Nixing potteries is unique and delicate. The potteries vary in forms and are resistant to acid and alkali and against moisture. They are nontoxic (the dissolving-out amount of Lead and Cadmium is zero), so they can be used to make tea or store food which will not be sour after a hot summer night, or used to hold water and arrange flowers which will flourish. They not only are elegant and unique but also have rather high value of practicality and well received by people. Nixing Pottery is only made in Qinzhou City, so it is unique in China.