Horizontal kettle yixing clay woodfired teapot # 94786The name (shupng h) literally means horizontal teapot. This is not a widely codified historic category in classical ceramic taxonomy, so the exact canonical form is ambiguous; different workshops and potters may use the term for slightly different shapes. With that caveat, the name typically suggests a teapot whose visual axis is emphasized horizontallya low, flattened or squat body with a broad silhouette rather than a tall, upright profile.