Dragon Scale Cai Shao Cup “Ren”
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
These stunning green, glassy cups represent an entirely new body of work for experimental porcelain artist Yi Xuan.
While Yi Xuan has been focused deeply on the effect of ash glaze and iron oxides in the kiln for the past year, these “Dragon Scale” pieces reach towards celadon craft and glazing technique. She applies this perspective to the higher heat, higher stakes porcelain firing process instead of traditional stoneware, and with a “cao mu hui” or ash-based glazing.
Technical Specifications
- weight : 168 g
- apprx. capacity : 88 ml
- width : 6 cm
- height : 5.5 cm
- firing : Cai Shao
This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact tea cup pictured. Yi Xuan's work hand-sculpting each piece makes this fully unique - with mottling, depth, texture and even flashes of silver hidden in the glazing work. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual cup 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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