Cai Shao “Sculpted” Tasting Cup
Tea Cups
De Hua Porcelain
Yi Xuan CeramicsQuantity remaining: 5
Crafted By Yi Xuan
Experimental Porcelain artist Yi Xuan turns the expectations of exquisite porcelain on their head with this new sculpted tea cup series. While De Hua’s tradition is rooted in precision, this piece is reasserts the craft and humanity behind porcelain art. If you look closely, you can see Yi Xuan's own fingerprints in the sculpted natural shape of the cup.
Yi Xuan's unique two step firing 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, reaching temperatures so high that the cup has to be hand-built from her custom porcelain blend instead of traditional clay.
Technical Specifications
- weight : ~76 g
- apprx. capacity : ~50 ml
- width : 5.5 cm
- height : 5 cm
- firing : Dian Shao + Cai Shao
Holding the cup in your hand, it feels like holding an ancient piece unearthed after thousands of years.
Yi Xuan placed her seal on the interior of every cup. Each pieces has natural variation 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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