Award-winning artist Lai Xiaohong is famous for her hand-excavated and blended Di Cao Qing clay, a rich, dense and mottled clay that Lai Xiahong blends from minerals settled in her trough after months of careful aging. This meticulously hand-built Shi Piao form shows off Lai Xiaohong’s traditional grounding and her modern fluid sensibility in her art, with a playful lucky grasshopper carving to complete the piece. The warm Di Cao Qing clay is ready to take on more depth and luster over a lifetime of use.