Gao Pan yixing clay woodfired teapot # 94875The exact form name "" is not widely documented in standard catalogues and may be ambiguous the characters can be read as high tall () combined with a personal or family name Pan (), followed by teapot (). Because of that uncertainty, the following is a cautious, general description grounded in well established Chinese teapot traditions. Brief history: Teapots called (hu) have a long tradition in Jiangsus Yixing region from the late Ming into the Qing