We recently published an analysis of the antique Yixing teapot market on ezinearticles.com.  It was too big to be a blog, so we published it as an article, instead.  It contains a lot of information about the market for new and old Yixing teapots, in China and outside.  We also discuss our opinion of the markets and let you know what the experts that we deal with think, too.

You can read the article at http://ezinearticles.com/?id=2295015.

You can also download our paper about the current teapot market, "Tempest in Teapots", which discusses the current teapot market and a problem with bubble prices, in some sectors, on the In Country Analysis Page at http://www.leonacraig.com/In_Country_Analysis.htm

We also want to direct you to other resourses about zisha and antique teapots.  Several people have written down similar histories, so we offer one of them.  We cannot guarantee the future existence of all of these resources, but they were working when we updated this entry.  We will add more, as we find them:

1. Chinese Tea Culture On-line Museum for famous artists from all periods plus pictures of antique teapots: http://tea.timzhao.com/CTCOM/TEAPOT/index.html 
2. Tea forum discussing the firing of pots and vrious clays and colors. http://www.teadrunk.org/viewtopic.php?id=35 
3. Long article about tea, zisha and fakes http://www.terebess.hu/english/yixing1.html 
4. Mostly history of zisha teapots http://www.xiaopingstudio.com/yixingzisha-e.htm 
5. Small discussion of 3 tricks to spot old teapots http://teamasters.blogspot.com/2006/11/teaparkers-3-tricks-to-identify-old.html 
6. Another history http://www.botea.cn/en_tea-set/20080709/16401.html 
7. Wikipedia links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yixing_clay 
8. Another history http://www.terebess.hu/english/yixing2.html 
9. Current state of zisha production at Huanglong Mountain, but the translation is through google translator or something, because it is almost unreadable but does provide some information http://www.tonke.cn/company-en-xxegoh.html 
10. Long interactive discussion of various clays http://www.teachat.com/viewtopic.php?t=9129 
11. Another almost unreadable translation with a lot of information and history, if you can get by the robo-trans. http://teaposur.blogspot.com/

To see some of the teapots that we offer for sale, in the Leona Craig Art Gallery, go to our teapots intro page at http://www.leonacraig.com/Chinese_Teapots_Intro.htm 

We also did a report, recently, about the Art Markets in China that you can download from the In Country Analysis Page: The Chinese Art Markets 

A final article that we recently wrote, which may be of interest to you is: Investment Aspects of Art