Of Terracotta and Teapots

Our last stop in Xian was to the Shaanxi Provincial History Museum, which was a pretty, modern building with lots of local artifacts in terracotta and bronze, and the first celadon glazes.

We found an old teapot in a pale green celadon - they called it the magic teapot because there was no obvious way to fill it by looking at the top, you had to turn it over.

So we bought a reproduction at the gift shop!  Not sure if we'll ever use it but it's awfully pretty.