* This Yixing King teapot is handmade by highly experienced craftsman *Yixing teapots are intended for puer, black, and oolong teas.They can also be used for green or white teas. *A famous characteristic of Yixing teapots are their ability to absorb trace amounts of brewed tea flavors and minerals into the teapot with each brewing. *Soap is not recommended for cleaning Yixing teapots, but instead, fresh distilled water and air drying. *Many tea connoisseurs will steep only one type of tea in a particular Yixing teapot, so that future brewings of the same type of tea will be optimally enhanced. *Some Yixing teapots are smaller than their western counterparts as the tea is often brewed using the gongfu style of brewing: shorter steeping durations with smaller amounts of water and smaller teacups. *Comes with box