Buddha's Hand Melon Hanwa yixing clay woodfired teapot # 94853The exact form indicated by the Chinese name "" is not a standard, widely documented teapot type and is somewhat ambiguous without seeing the object. The name appears to combine evocative elements (Buddhas hand), (gourd), and (Han tile) so the safest reading is that it names a teapot whose profile or decorative vocabulary references those motifs rather than a single canonical historical model. General historical context: From the late Ming into the