Verdant Tea

This lovely green gaiwan is the perfect size for tasting a tea through many infusions, flexible enough to brew solo or for up to four people with smaller cups. This smaller size is particularly traditional in Fujian and Guangzhou for steeping fine oolongs where you pack in as much leaf as possible and do short hot infusions all day. The wide lid finial makes this particularly easy to hold and angle for pouring. Modern gaiwan convention skips the saucer, letting the gaiwan be used flexibly with a board, a tea boat, or on a runner.

These adorable hand-painted teacup friends are ready to join you for tea! This fun tea cup set features one of each cartoon friend - a dinoasaur, a pig, a rabbit, and a whale - drawn by our friends at Peng Hua Qing Yuan studio in Dehua, one of China’s ancient porcelain capitols. The patterns may be playful, but each cup is high-fired porcelain, perfect for bringing out deep aromatics in every tea!

This delicate, beautifully finished pot shows off the craft of Peng Hua Qing Yuan Studio. The piece is turned on a lathe to define the pot body, then smoothed and assembled by hand before firing and meticulous hand-painting by the studio’s small but talented team. The thin handle, defined strainer holes and unique lid handle show off the attention to detail, while the high-firing brings out all the delicate aromatics of your tea.

This thin and lustrous porcleain full gongfu tea set is hand painted in a classic blue and white landscape motif by Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio in De Hua, one of China's ancient porcelain capitols. A pattern as detailed as this landscape takes years of practice, a good eye and a steady hand. This set includes a gaiwan, pitcher, strainer and two tea cups. Their high-fired, highly-vitrified porcelain is completely non-reactive and perfect to show off a true sense of any tea. 

Everything you could possibly need for a full modern gongfu tea set up - alll in a convenient travel gear case! Modern Gongfu is a versatile, adaptable evolution of classic gongfu that skips the tea board in favor of a bowl to collect excess tea and water. This allows the whole set up to travel from room to room, on trips, to the park, etc without the bulk of a board, but with absolutely every tool for full gongfu ritual. The high-fired vitrified porcelain is made by Pengyuan Qinghua Studio to bring out the aromatics of fine tea. The set includes a gaiwan, four guest cups and one taller host cup, a tea presentation boat or “chahe,” a glass pitcher, a water bowl, a porcelain canister to protect your favorite tea, a tea towel to catch any drips, a runner, bamboo tweezers for tea cups, a bamboo tea scoop, and finally, a porcelain lid holder for your gaiwan lid to rest while you pour.

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 Yi Li Zhu or "pearl" form is adorned with gilded gold leaf "fu" seals, evoking abundance. The warm Di Cao Qing clay is ready to take on more depth and luster over a lifetime of use.