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PO/ET

The Makers

Two hands, one studio.

Every PO/ET teapot leaves the bench of one of two potters. Each works the clay a different way — one to the round classical forms, one to the botanical and figural — and each signs the underside of their pots with their own seal.

A teapot thrown by Yao Yun
Throws the round, full-bodied forms

Master potter · zisha forms

Yao Yun 窑云

yáo yún — “kiln cloud”

Yao Yun keeps to the classical Yixing repertoire — full, round bodies that pour in a single clean arc. Every pot is paddled by hand from a flat sheet of clay, never cast.

Her work is unhurried. A single teapot moves through her bench a dozen times before firing: shaped, rested, trimmed, rested again, until the wall rings true when tapped.

She signs the underside of each pot with the studio's kiln-cloud seal — the same mark stamped on PO/ET teaware since 1983.

13 teapots in the collection

A teapot thrown by Yi Fou
Carves the botanical and figural pots

Sculptor · botanical & figural work

Yi Fou 亦缶

yì fǒu — “also a vessel”

Yi Fou took the studio name from 缶, an ancient clay vessel. He works where pottery meets sculpture — gourds, bamboo, hydrangea, door-god reliefs pressed into the clay while it is still soft.

His pots wear their decoration as structure, not surface: a handle becomes a vine, a knob becomes a bud. Nothing is glued on after firing.

He fires in small batches and rejects freely. A season at his bench yields perhaps thirty pots he is willing to sign.

11 teapots in the collection

Since 1983

Both potters work under one roof, and one founder.

The PO/ET studio was founded by the sculptor Dou Lu in Yixing in 1983. Yao Yun and Yi Fou both trained at his bench, and both still fire in his kiln.