Purple Milk Cauldron yixing clay woodfired teapot # 94903The exact form called "" is not a widely established, single canonical type in published catalogs, so the identification is somewhat ambiguous. Parsing the name helps: (zi) commonly refers to purple or to zisha (purple clay), (ru) suggests a nipple or budlike projection or rounded bosses, (ding) invokes the ancient tripod bronze vessel, and (hu) means teapot. Taken together, a "" would most likely be a zisha (purpleclay) teapot that takes its