Small Milk Cauldron yixing clay woodfired teapot # 94904The Chinese name literally reads as smallnipple ding teapot. The exact historical cataloguing of this specific form is somewhat ambiguous the term likely describes a small teapot shaped or decorated with features evoking a ding (), an ancient Chinese bronze cauldron, and bearing small rounded protuberances or nipples () as ornament or structural bosses. Brief history: the ding is one of the most emblematic ritual bronzes of the ShangZhou periods and