Is purple pottery made of pottery?
Purple clay produced in nearby Yixing Dingshu hills, there are purple clay, green clay and red clay, three. In the firing process, the surface does not glaze, the natural clay color is precisely its characteristic. Purple clay can be made into pottery pots, pottery bottles, pottery pots, and sculptures, among which the teapot is represented.So it's ceramic
Purple sand teapot is a kind of pottery tea set produced in Jiangsu area of Yixing in Ming and Qing dynasties. It's pottery, not porcelain.The similarities and differences between pottery and porcelain:Tao and the porcelain capital are the art of using the earth as the noumenon language, but there are also differences between the two. The basic materials of pottery and porcelain are the same. The ancients said, "the essence of pottery is porcelain."". In contrast, for the pure white porcelain, non absorbent, with transparency, so describe Jingdezhen porcelain as thin as paper, such as the sound of white snow. The pottery is different, although there are white, but less than the whiteness of porcelain, hydrophilic, opaque. Porcelain is usually glazed, but earthenware is not necessary; purple sand is a glaze without glaze.
