Bamboo Leaf Pillar Base yixing clay woodfired teapot # 94817The exact form name (literally bambooleaf columnbase teapot) is not widely recorded in standard catalogues, so the following is a cautious, general account based on the name and common Chinese teapot conventions. Brief history: Teapots as we know them emerged in China in the late Ming to early Qing centuries and became firmly established across the 17th19th centuries, with regional workshops (most famously Yixing) producing a great variety of shapes