Dr. Seuss Fish 11-oz Yixing Teapot

Our 11-oz Dr. Seuss Fish Yixing Teapot was hand made in Yixing China using the famous purple clay, zisha clay, that is said to only occur in the Yellow Dragon Cave of Dingshan town in Yixing, China. The shape of the teapot is that of the Dr. Seuss Fish figure. Our Dr. Seuss Fish Yixing Teapot is certainly a fanciful design and is very cute. Nevertheless, it is most definitely NOT a traditional Yixing teapot design. As a matter of fact, it is actually a very unlikely design given that many of the Dr. Seuss books were actually banned in China in 1964 as being a direct threat to the Communist party. What's more, on March 2, 2021, the publisher of the Dr. Seuss books formally withdrew 6 of the books from publication due to racist imagery and "jarring racial steriotypes" in their portrayal of Asian characters. Personally, I will not take exception to this little fish figure because the koi fish appears frequently as an artistic motif in China. (Granted, this looks nothing like a koi!) The k