Bamboo-shaped kettle yixing clay woodfired teapot # 94908The exact term (zhji tng h) is not widely standardized in published teapot form lists, so it may be a descriptive name meaning bamboojoint barrel teapot rather than a single codified model. Broadly speaking, this refers to teapots modeled on bamboo segments () with a barrellike () body. Historically, bamboomotif vessels and naturalistic teapot forms have been popular in China for centuries. Literati and tea connoisseurs from the Ming and especially