Verdant Tea

This elegant carved bamboo tea tool set comes in a beautiful linen traveling case to safely store the tools between uses, complete with string tie. Tied, the set is beautiful arranged next to a gongfu setup or tea board, and invites contemplative brewing and joyful deliberate tea tasting. The set includes a presentation boat, a brush to clean pots and boards, a scoop, a tweezers for holding tea cups and a pick for cleaning leaves out of pots between uses. All together, it’s everything you need to round out a gongfu setup. Note- this set comes in multiple linen pouch colors. Feel free to pick your favorite!

This unique tea tool set shows off beautiful natural wood encased in resin. This wood and resin has a subtle piney aroma, bringing in a bit of the outdoors. If you are making the time for gongfu brewing, why not complete the set-up with a full set of tea tools to add that extra sense of ritual and fun to your daily tasting? The set includes a funnel to help pour leaves into narrow teapots, a scoop for measuring, a pick to loosen leaves that might stick to a strainer, a tweezers for lifting teacups to rinse, and a mini-scoop for pushing tea leaves into a pot or measuring matcha.

If you are making the time for gongfu brewing, why not complete the set-up with a full set of tea tools to add that extra sense of ritual and fun to your daily tasting? This beautiful wooden set from Xiangfu Workshop includes a funnel to help pour leaves into narrow teapots, a scoop for measuring, a pick to loosen leaves that might stick to a strainer, a tweezers for lifting teacups to rinse, and a mini-scoop for pushing tea leaves into a pot or measuring matcha.

If you have beautiful, hand-picked and hand finished tea, why not take a moment to show off the beauty of the leaves? This elegant scoop sets the tone, both playful and gorgeous, letting you pass around a perfectly-twisted Wuyi oolong or rolled Tieguanyin before brewing.

This excellent pu’er pick features a dramatic chiseled angle for breaking apart cakes of fine pu’er, white tea or aged oolong with ease. The handle is cut from sandalwood and perfectly joined to the blade. Breaking a cake of fine tea is part of the whole ceremony, so why not use a tool designed with modern gongfu in mind?

This mini tea caddy is perfect for presenting 5-7g of your very favorite tea, either for travel, to gift to friends and family, or for saving a few steepings of a tea you love before it runs out. Elegant on a shelf or gift box, this caddy is made of fine Dehua porcelain and screws shut to keep out air and light. Hand-painted deep crimson red by the artists at Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio.

This mini tea caddy is perfect for presenting 5-7g of your very favorite tea, either for travel, to gift to friends and family, or for saving a few steepings of a tea you love before it runs out. Elegant on a shelf or gift box, this caddy is made of fine Dehua porcelain and screws shut to keep out air and light. Hand-painted deep crimson red by the artists at Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio.

This mini tea caddy is perfect for presenting 5-7g of your very favorite tea, either for travel, to gift to friends and family, or for saving a few steepings of a tea you love before it runs out. Elegant on a shelf or gift box, this caddy is made of fine Dehua porcelain and screws shut to keep out air and light. Hand-painted with crimson bamboo by the artists at Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio.

Hand-Painted tea storage caddy from the artists of Peng Yuan Qing Hua Studio, perfect for storing 25g-50g of your favorite tea to keep out on your tea table or on your tea display shelf. Any tea tastes better when you scoop it out of a beautiful jar like this one, made from high-fired Dehua porcelain with a tight-fitting lid to protect your fresh teas from air and light. This jar is hand painted with auspicious gourds as a symbol of abundance.

Hand-Painted tea storage caddy from the artists of Peng Yuan Qing Hua Studio, perfect for storing 25g-50g of your favorite tea to keep out on your tea table or on your tea display shelf. Any tea tastes better when you scoop it out of a beautiful jar like this one, made from high-fired Dehua porcelain with a tight-fitting lid to protect your fresh teas from air and light. This jar is hand painted with ripe persimmons as a symbol of abundance.

Storing your favorite tea in a special caddy like this one truly elevates the tasting experience, turning every leaf into a treasure. The adorable daisies adorning this tea caddy against rich warm grey evoke a vintage 1960’s style with lush rich brushstrokes and deep greens. The Peng Yuan Qing Hua Studio shows off their mastery with such extensive hand painting work, against the backdrop of a high-fired, fully-vitrified tea caddy. The lid of the caddy includes a wrapped stopper to limit airflow and protect the aroma of the tea. This caddy holds about 75 grams of a heavy tea like Tieguanyin, 60 grams of a medium volume tea like Laoshan Black, and 20 grams of a very fluffy tea like Bai Hao Yin Zhen.

The evocative dragon and phoenix relief across this monumental celadon tea storage jar shows off the depth and luster of the glaze. Hand-finished and fired at a traditional Longquan celadon kiln, this tea storage jar is large enough for over a pound of most teas or several broken-up pu’er cakes - perfect for keeping your absolute favorite tea in easy reach, and lovely enough to make a permanent fixture on your tea table.

This adorable piece from Peng Yuan Qing Hua Studio depicts a cat running with a single flower. The stand is sculpted like gnarled wood and finished in deep silver glazing on the underside. This is designed to sit alongside a gaiwan or teapot to rest the lid between steepings so you don’t have to hold the lid as you fill the pot or gaiwan with water, but works just as well as a stunning stand for small teacups

This elegant saucer can work as a flexible base for any gaiwan, a presentation stand for small teapots and pitchers and tea animals. Flip the saucer over and it doubles as a coaster for your favorite tea cup. This clever design by Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio is entirely hand-painted with an elegant scene of cypress trees perched on a rocky mountainside- the landscape of tea growing country.

This dream-like, abstract hand-painted porcelain tea bowl from Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio shows off their masterful, gestural painting skills and the depth of color contrast they achieve between lustrous white porcelain and traditional blue glaze. Their inspiration point was the enveloping feeling of the aromatic steam that rises from the tea set and catches the light in misty waves. Their high-fired, highly-vitrified porcelain is completely non-reactive and perfect to show off a true sense of any tea. The bowl is inset with a cover that allows water to drain below, making this perfect to set a small teapot or cup on top of for gongfu ceremony, or to pour out a teapot and catch the leaves while draining the water.

The Peng Yuan Qing Hua Studio shows off their skill with beautiful, highly stylized persimmons. This grandiose stand can double as a saucer for your gaiwan or a flexible tea boat for modern gongfu tea. It is hand-painted in the style of screen paintings, with each persimmon’s sculptural shape captured in their brushwork. The deep rich orange contrasts with classic porcelain blue for a deeply traditional old-school effect. 

This is the perfect companion for modern gongfu- small, flexible and portable, this tea boat can be used with any gaiwan, or yixing teapot. The boat’s basin holds a full steeping of tea so that you can still pour your rinse over a pot to season it, but takes up less space than a full tea board. The boat can be lined up with a pitcher and cups for a full set that can go anywhere, not just a dedicated tea table. The adorable daisies adorning this tea boat against rich warm grey evoke a vintage 1960’s style with lush rich brushstrokes and deep greens. The Peng Yuan Qing Hua Studio shows off their mastery with such extensive hand painting work, against the backdrop of a high-fired, fully-vitrified tea boat.

The ewer is a traditional implement originally used for pouring rice wine at banquets and later adopted to tea ceremony. By pouring your boiling water in an ewer first, you can bring the temperature down to a perfect level for delicate green tea, white tea, or even buddy black teas. Plus, pouring from the ewer makes for a stunningly elegant presentation for deliberate gongfu tea ritual.