boccaro--pot

Boccaro ware, also named Zisha or red pottery originated in 7 century A.D., takes the special earthenware as raw material, and utilizes over 100 special tools made from materials such as wood, bamboo, ox horn. This special clay has extremely high plasticity and can stand fire during the baking period, some of the boccaro wares are in distinguished exterior. It is very popular among people because of the nature of adsorption and ventilation performance; people use boccaro vessels for keep tea water from loosing flavor in hot summer, storing tea leaf without any fading. Especially the old boccaro touches smooth, luster, and has the functions of making the tea water mellower. Among others, because of the essential feature of the earthenware, it cannot be softened by using water directly, so all of boccaro products cannot be fabricated by taking the wheel-rotation crafts or clay slurry but manually knead into containers. The unique endosarc of zisha raw materials makes wares simple in external makeup, succinct features, elegant in external appearance, as well as its succinctness.