Small flat jade yixing clay woodfired teapot # 94826The name literally translates as "small flattened jade pot." That label is largely descriptive rather than a single, rigorously defined historical form, so the exact model can be ambiguous without a makers mark or provenance. General historical context: Small, intimate teapots became especially popular in China from the late Ming into the Qing dynasty as tea drinking shifted toward the gongfu stylecompact vessels that concentrate aroma and allow