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Cai Shao Porcelain Soda Glaze Collector’s Teacup

Cai Shao Porcelain Soda Glaze Collector’s Teacup

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Crafted By Yi Xuan

With her unique soda glaze, artist Yi Xuan unites the organic and spontaneous nature of her wood kiln with the pristine, immaculate smoothness for which Dehua porcelain is so famous.

This stunningly thin and light tea bowl is modeled on the Song Dynasty wine goblet, a form used extensively in Jian Zhan firings. 

  • Technical Specifications

    • weight : 60 g
    • apprx. capacity : 85 ml
    • width : 8.5 cm
    • height : 4.5 cm
    • firing : Cai Shao

    The rich cream colors that on this piece reflect the way each wood-fired piece from Yi Xuan is truly one of a kind, but in a different way than her iridescent ash glaze work.

    This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact cup pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

    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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