Cai Shao Porcelain Aroma Cup
Tea Cups
De Hua Porcelain
Yi Xuan CeramicsQuantity remaining: 4
Crafted By Yi Xuan
Aroma cups are an essential part of old-school gongfu tea - a cup whose sole purpose is to collect, focus, and concentrate the aroma of your tea.
Experimental porcelain artist Yi Xuan was fascinated with the idea of firing a small batch of exquisitely thin, hand-thrown aroma cups in her wood kiln to match her stunning tea cups. This first batch came out beautifully!
Technical Specifications
- weight : 38 g
- apprx. capacity : 32 ml
- width : 3.5 cm
- height : 5 cm
- firing : Dian Shao + Cai Shao
Yi Xuan's unique two step firing for these cups 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 huge kiln, reaching temperatures 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 with its purple and silver swirling iridescence.
Each of these pieces has slight natural variation, 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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