Small eggplant yixing clay woodfired teapot # 94896The name literally reads small eggplantsegment teapot. That exact term is not widely canonical, so it most likely denotes a small teapot whose body is modeled on an eggplant () and divided into visible segments or rings () a naturalistic variant within the long Chinese tradition of vegetable and fruitinspired teapot forms. Historically, shaped teapots are most closely associated with the Yixing (zisha) tradition from Jiangsu province, which from the