The Sihai Teapot Museum is a

private museum A private museum is a collection, usually on a very limited topic and operated by individual enthusiasts, collectors, clubs or companies. Overview Unlike a public or governmental museum, a scientific monitoring and systematic documentation is n ...

dedicated to teapots located in

Jiading District Jiading is a suburban district of Shanghai. It had a population of 1,471,100 in 2010. History Historically, Jiading was a separate municipality/town, until, in 1958, becoming under the administration of Shanghai. In 1993, Jiading's designate ...

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

. It is the first private museum to open in modern Shanghai. The Sihai Teapot Museum was founded in 1992 by

Xu Sihai Xu Sihai (c. 1946 – June 5, 2020) was a Chinese teapot creator, artisan, collector, and curator. Xu was an expert and authority on purple clay teapots, also known as the Yixing clay teapot. In 1992, Xu founded the Sihai Teapot Museum, the first ...

, an expert in purple clay teapots and

Yixing ware Yixing clay () is a type of clay from the region near the city of Yixing in Jiangsu Province, China, used in Chinese pottery since the Song dynasty (960–1279) when Yixing clay was first mined around China's Lake Tai. From the 17th century on, ...

teapots. In 2009, Xu Sihai also established the Hundred Buddhas Garden, a 3.07-hectare complex encompassing the original Sihai Teapot Museum, as well as the nearby China Tea God Museum and a tea processing mill.

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