Shao Youlan

Shao Youlan worked her craft during the Qing Dynasty, a golden age when Yixing teapots had captured the hearts of scholars, emperors, and tea lovers across China. As a woman artisan in a world where the Shao family name was already legendary in Yixing's purple clay tradition, she carried forward generations of skill with quiet mastery. Though history didn't always write down women's names, her hands shaped the same humble, breathing clay that made Yixing famous around the world.