Cai Shao Porcelain Guojiu Demi-Tasse
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
Experimental Porcelain artist Yi Xuan actually took a six month position part time at a high-end coffee shop to immerse herself in espresso culture with the goal of better understanding the way other beverages can intersect with porcelain art.
This “residency” of sorts inspired her to want to take on the challenge of an espresso style cup, complete with stunningly-thin handle.
Technical Specifications
- weight : 55 g
- apprx. capacity : 48 ml
- width : 5.5 cm
- height : 3.5 cm
- firing : Cai Shao
The entire cup was delicately hand-sculpted in fine porcelain. It took many firings to get a successful piece out of Yi Xuan’s extreme high-fire high temp wood kiln. The intense heat usually cracks and shatters pieces as thin and fine as this, especially with a long handle. This cup is a triumph of Yi Xuan’s kiln and a testament to her skill and adaptability.
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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