Hand-Built Cai Shao Tea Mug
Hand-Built Cai Shao Tea Mug
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Tea Cups
De Hua Porcelain
Yi Xuan CeramicsThis fully handmade cup is one-of-a-kind and available while supplies last
Crafted By Yi Xuan
Artist Yi Xuan has studied ceramics traditions from across the world, including a three year research project on coffee culture that exposed her to larger mugs.
This hand-built piece looks like it was hewn from a solid piece of stone, especially in the way Yi Xuan shaped this by hand to preserve a solid anchoring feeling.
Technical Specifications
- weight : 205 g
- apprx. capacity : 270 ml
- width : 7.5 cm
- height : 8.75 cm
- firing : Dian Shao + Cai Shao
This beautiful piece is accentuated by her unique two step firing that involves an electric kiln firing to set the unglazed porcelain, followed by application of a blended ash glaze and finally, an extensive multi-day wood-firing in her old-school kiln where temperatures reach so high that the cup has to be hand-built from her custom porcelain blend instead of traditional clay.
Holding the cup in hand, it feels like holding an ancient piece unearthed after thousands of years.
Note: this piece is entirely one-of-a-kind. The pictures you see are this exact mug, which is unlike any other that comes out of Yi Xuan’s kiln.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Yi Xuan
Dehua County Yi Xuan Ceramics Research Institute |
Cai Shao Ceramics Studio Research Center
Master potter, artist and researcher Yi Xuan heads her own officially-recognized Ceramics Research Institute, accredited by the Dehua Ceramics Development Committee as a Research and Development site for collaboration with ceramics craft university programs. She primarily works with national-level ceramics masters and graduate program professors doing experimental kiln firings, researching new techniques and collaborating as an artist and kiln master.
Her wood-fired kiln is based on years of research on ancient firing techniques, along with modern science and collaboration. Due to the immense amount of work to do a firing, Yi Xuan only fires three times a year, with most space devoted to university research projects. This means her own body of work is tiny and mostly reserved by collectors before firing.
Yi Xuan and Verdant Tea
In November 2023, we were lucky enough to be introduced to Yi Xuan through a classmate that studied with one of the professors with whom she collaborates. We became quick friends.
Yi Xuan decided to make a few of the pieces held back for her own personal collection available to us as a cultural exchange to share Dehua’s ancient and ever changing ceramics tradition.
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