Chinese Tea Drinking Vessels and European Teapots

If one is to go by the accounts of Chou Kao-ch’i who authored the Yang Hsien ming hu hsi, an account dealing with Ishing teapots, it was these teapots, which were the creations of potters at Ishing, that were later made famous to Europeans and were known to them by the Portuguese term, bocarro. Bocarro [...]