Cai Shao “Moonlight” Collector’s Cup
Tea Cups
De Hua Porcelain
Yi Xuan CeramicsQuantity remaining: 2
Crafted By Yi Xuan
Sitting around the tea table together, Yi Xuan calls these stunning, hand-built pieces her ‘classic porcelain’ with a smile on her face. What she means is that these cups are her only work that gets a traditional white glaze, a nod to her training and discipline as a potter in De Hua, China’s oldest center of porcelain culture.
Of course, this work is nothing like “classic” porcelain, with its subtle coloration that comes from Yi Xuan’s unique wood-firing process and its celadon-like crazing. The sculptural shapes of each piece are a testament to her insistence to form each cup by hand without a lathe or even a potters wheel - her tribute to ancient craft.
Technical Specifications
- weight : ~148 g
- apprx. capacity : ~68 ml
- width : 6 cm
- height : 5 cm
- firing : Cai Shao
- includes : collector's box
This cup is larger than a mini gongfu cup, done at a scale to show off the color and sculptural quality of the work - perfect for one or two people pouring gongfu.
Yi Xuan placed her seal on the interior of every cup. Each pieces has natural variation and unique coloring from their cai shao firing, part of the beauty of truly hand-made work from one of China’s preeminent ceramics research scholars.
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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