Also known as the "Xishi Breast." The spout is short, tapering from thick at the base to thin at the tip, allowing smooth water flow. The handle takes the form of an inverted ear, accommodating multiple fingers for easy gripping and handling. The lid employs a flush-fitting style that naturally transitions into the body's curved lines. The overall form resembles a woman's full breast, with the knob like a nipple. Drawing comparison to the beauty Xishi, it is thus named the "Inverted-Handle Xishi Teapot." According to *An Illustrated Study of Yixing Clay Teapots*, Xu Youquan was once recruited into the household of Wu Meiding's father, where he devoted years of painstaking effort and exhaustive thought to creating dozens of zisha vessel forms, among which was the "Xishi Breast."[1] Wu Meiding's *Rhapsody on Yixing Teapots* gave Xu Youquan extremely high praise, using the phrases "charm rivaling a beauty" and "refinement surpassing noble sons" to describe how the two teapot forms—"Beauty's Shoulder" and "Xishi Breast"—achieved the marvel of "modeling form and embodying essence with exquisite perfection." Wu Meiding's grand-uncle Wu Yishan was a legendary figure in zisha history. His ability to leave a mark on zisha history was undoubtedly inseparable from his family's scholarly tradition in zisha and the experience of Xu Youquan residing in his household. ## The Inverted-Handle Xishi Teapot This "Inverted-Handle Xishi Teapot" was made in the 1930s. In form and name, it belongs to the category of small teapots, commonly made from red clay for practical convenience. Gu Jingzhou's version demonstrates excellence in both spirit and structural proportion, and represents an early commercial teapot he made for local merchants. --- [1] (Republican Era) Li Jingkang and Zhang Hong, *An Illustrated Study of Yixing Clay Teapots*, in Han Qilou (ed.), *Modern Translations of Classical Zisha Texts* (Beijing: Beijing Publishing House, January 2011), p. 214.