Frosted horizontal kettle yixing clay woodfired teapot # 94806The Chinese name can be read literally as matte (or sanded) horizontal teapot. I cant confirm that is a single fixed canonical form across all historical sources, so this description treats the name as indicating a low, horizontally oriented teapot finished with a matte surface. Brief history: Teapots of this type belong to the long Chinese tradition of small, hand oriented brewing vesselsmost familiarly associated with Yixing (zisha) wares from