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TEA TOOLS for gongfu + more
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?
TEA STORAGE caddies + jars
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.
This intriguing design combines traditional celadon craft with a distinctly modern double-lid perfect for teas that require an airtight protected environment like fresh Tieguanyin or for long term aging of white tea and roasted oolongs. The outer lid is a screw top, while the inner lid pops in and out for a very secure fit. The deep, beautiful celadon glazing brings elegance to any tea setup.
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.
MODERN GONGFU complete your set
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 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.
Everything you could possibly need for a full modern gongfu tea set up - alll in a convenient travel gear case! Modern Gongfu is a versatile, adaptable evolution of classic gongfu that skips the tea board in favor of a bowl to collect excess tea and water. This allows the whole set up to travel from room to room, on trips, to the park, etc without the bulk of a board, but with absolutely every tool for full gongfu ritual. The high-fired vitrified porcelain is made by Pengyuan Qinghua Studio to bring out the aromatics of fine tea. The set includes a gaiwan, four guest cups and one taller host cup, a tea presentation boat or “chahe,” a glass pitcher, a water bowl, a porcelain canister to protect your favorite tea, a tea towel to catch any drips, a runner, bamboo tweezers for tea cups, a bamboo tea scoop, and finally, a porcelain lid holder for your gaiwan lid to rest while you pour.
Coasters are an indispensable part of modern gongfu ceremony. They can be placed on tea boards to protect yixing from scratching, or they can be paired with a tea boat to hold a pitcher, a strainer, and tea cups. These coasters are hand woven in Yunnan from bamboo and become darker over time as they absorb tea spills.
The ubiquitous tea cloth is a critical part of any gongfu tea ceremony. A cloth is critical to dab any drips from pitcher or pot as your pour, to wipe down your tea board between uses and to polish your yixing, jian zhan, celadon, or any other pottery that grows more beautiful over many uses. The soft absorbent material was designed specifically with teaware in mind.
Every tea set up looks best framed off by a runner, and this classic bamboo runner is a perfect size and shape for compact gongfu set-ups. Bamboo is a popular choice for gongfu set-ups since you can simply wash the runner in a sink if it gets tea stained- no need to launder like cloth runners. The bamboo is evocative of the Song dynasty scholarly tradition and offers an incredible backdrop for stunning tea ceremony and daily tasting.
This saucer is perfect as a tea boat for modern gongfu brewing where you skip a full tea board. The saucer will catch any small drips from your teapot or pitcher and act as a beautiful understated backdrop while you brew. The saucer also works beautifully as a paring with any saucerless celadon gaiwans in the collection if you prefer the look and feel of a saucer set-up, but is equally at home with an yixing pot.
Maybe you already have a perfect gongfu setup, or you just need want to pick out a special teapot or gaiwan. This kit rounds up all the trimmings for serious gongfu brewing that you might not already have on hand- a chahai to present dry tea leaves and filter them into your teapot, a full set of tea tools, a tea cloth for catching drips or polishing your yixing between uses, and the critical water bowl for holding rinses or extra tea in a modern gongfu setup without a draining teaboard.
This essential gongfu kit includes a gaiwan, pitcher and strainer to kickstart your gongfu tea brewing adventures. Pair with your own favorite cups suited to your style. The simple gaiwan at the heart of this set is a pleasure to hold and use, perfectly sized for tea tasting, while the glass pitcher is a high-quality tempered piece that can double as a brewer for green teas. This kit is designed to be the most accessible entry point into gongfu style brewing possible.
This thin, fine and lustrous porcelain strainer was meticulously hand-painted by Peng Yuan Qing Hua Studio in De Hua, one of China’s ancient porcelain capitols. The fine brushwork of a detailed pattern like this take years of practice, a good eye and a steady hand. The strainer is uniquely made from fine hotels in the porcelain itself, not a plastic mesh, making the whole piece more durable.
This dream-like, abstract hand-painted porcelain tea strainer 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 strainer is uniquely made from fine hotels in the porcelain itself, not a plastic mesh, making the whole piece more durable.
This tea set is everything you need to brew fine tea at home, or to kickstart friends and family in gongfu tea brewing. This essentials collection includes a white porcelain gaiwan that is fully non-reactive for true, clean flavor and aroma. The cups are high fired porcelain from Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio in Dehua. The tempered glass pitcher and stainless steel strainer make it easy to brew for a group.
The creamy blue of the distinctive Ru glaze was first pioneered in the Song Dynasty to evoke the sky. Now, the master craftspeople at the Jie Feng studio in Dehua fire these Ru pieces at over 1100 degrees celsius to bring back this Song Dynasty tradition. This set comes with a gaiwan, a pitcher and strainer, all a pleasure to hold and a beautiful contrast to the color of tea, especially as they crackle over time. Pair with your own choice of favorite cups, perhaps with contrasting Jian Zhan, white Jingdezhen porcelain, or even green celadon.
It's hard to capture the haughty elegance of a pampered cat, but artist Zhao Yonghui brings the spirit and character of a cat to life with his hand-made sculpture. This cat is ready for tea, but only the finest! Made from real Duan Ni Yixing clay, years of pouring a little of each brew over this tea animal will give it a lustrous patina and deep color.
Don't want a cat clambering over your fine porcelain? Zhao Yonghui's hand-made tea pet promises to behave! This fat cat is ready for chill tea sessions and full of character thanks to Zhao Yoghui's skillful carving work. Made from real Duan Ni Yixing clay, years of pouring a little of each brew over this tea animal will give it a lustrous patina and deep color.
Fully hand-sculpted by artist Zhao Yonghui, this adorable tea pet is made from real Duan Ni Yixing clay. The artist looks to bring a lively energy to each of his pieces, and this baby rabbit exemplifies his style, huddled up and ready for tea. Years of pouring a little of each brew over this tea animal will give it a lustrous patina and deep color.
A perfect companion for gongfu brewing, this tiger is ready to sip tea with you all day. Zhao Yonghui meticulously hand-carved and hand-painted this tea pet, giving it an expressive air of serenity. Made from real Duan Ni Yixing clay, years of pouring a little of each brew over this tea animal will give it a lustrous patina and deep color.
This tea pet by artist Zhao Yonghui embraces the traditional bird form, imbuing it with a cute lively energy with his hand-crafting. Made from real Duan Ni Yixing clay, years of pouring a little of each brew over this tea animal will give it a lustrous patina and deep color.
This trio of tea animals makes for a perfectly festive tea board, giving you lifelong gongfu tea companions. While most tea animals are machine-made, Yixing artist Zhao Yonghui insists on sourcing high quality clay and carefully hand-sculpting each piece to give them personality. Pouring tea of the tea animals helps them build up a beautiful patina over time. This set shows off the playful dynamic energy that Zhao Yonghui put’s into his work, one that keeps rewarding you for years to come.
This fully hand-made tea pet from artist Zhao Yonghui celebrates the story of Chang’e, who spirited away the recipe for the elixir of immortality, and either becomes a rabbit, or is accompanied by a rabbit who produces the elixir with a mortar and pestle. The textural detail of the moon’s craters, along with the intricate rabbit perched on top make for a stunning tea animal and example of Zhao Yonghui’s craft.
Hand-made from fine Yixing clay by artist Zhao Yonghui, this serene rabbit sits in contemplation, a perfect companion for daily tea. Note the detail of the rabbits fur, and the accentuated ears. This tea animal will get deeper and more lustrous as you ‘feed’ it with tea every time you brew.
We’ve all seen how cats can miraculously fold themselves up into perfect balls, or loaves of bread. This portrait of a perfectly sleeping cat by artist Zhao Yonghui was hand-sculpted with fine yixing clay that will get deeper and more lustrous over time as you pour tea over your tea pet.
Artist Zhao Yonghui thinks its important to have a companion for all your tea adventures, so how about this artfully sculpted, meticulously detailed Panda Explorer? They’ve even got their own panda satchel! The fine yixing clay that Zhao Yonghui uses will grow deeper and more lustrous every time you feed your tea pet by pouring brewed tea over it.
This striking glass pitcher ripples like glacial ice in the sun, amplifying light and showing off the color of your tea as you pour. With glass, you can see the leaves unfold in the pitcher for traditional green tea brewing and connect with the craft of the people behind the tea before you take your first sip. Tempered for brewing with boiling water and elegantly gilded, this is a stunning addition to any gongfu setup.
This gongdao bei or tea pitcher shows off an old-school scholar’s studio tea setup, complete with a sculptural rock for contemplation, and an ancient burner. The scene connects modern gongfu back to old traditions, a reminder of tea culture spanning the centuries. The stunning bright white porcelain is perfect for appreciating the color of your tea as you pour.
Thin, fine and lustrous, high-fired porcelain pitcher from De Hua is highly vitrified and non-reactive, presenting a clean focused aroma in your teas. The classic blue and white landscape motif was meticulously hand-painted by Peng Yuan Qing Hua Studio in De Hua, one of China’s ancient porcelain capitols. The fine brushwork of a detailed pattern like this take years of practice, a good eye and a steady hand.
This dream-like, abstract hand-painted pitcher 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 pitcher and catches the light in misty waves. Their high-fired, highly-vitrified porcelain work brings out the deepest aromatics in your tea.
Not all glass teaware is on the same level. This pitcher from Xiangfu shows off glass crafting technique with unusually lustrous and clear glass, perfect tempering, and beautiful curves thanks to the unique rippled design. These curves are crafted to help your tea light up in the afternoon sun, showing off its stunning natural color, providing a sense of drama and anticipation as you pour into each cup. Glass wares like this pair effortlessly with Yixing, celadon, Jian Zhan or porcelain, making them a great flexible addition to any gongfu set.
This masterful pitcher from Min Xin Tang takes meticulous craft to capture a perfectly clear mountain in glass. The effect of the mountain is stunning when the pitcher is filled with tea and lit by the sun as it catches the angles and shines like dawn breaking over a real mountain. The wood handle is a pleasure to hold, creating a gorgeous offset to the crystalline tempered glass.
This thin, fine, lustrous porcelain features a meticulously hand painted pine bough in incredible detail. The modern sleek shape is perfect for any gongfu set up, and the fully-vitrified non-reactive high fired porcelain amplifies the aromatics of any tea you pour from it, perfect for serious and contemplative tasting.
This thin, fine, lustrous porcelain features a meticulously hand painted bamboo motif in incredible detail, fired in both traditional blue and deep green for a stunning two tone effect. The modern sleek shape is perfect for any gongfu set up, and the fully-vitrified non-reactive high fired porcelain amplifies the aromatics of any tea you pour from it, perfect for serious and contemplative tasting.
This striking pitcher features a hand-painted motif of delicate bamboo swaying in the wind. Pengyuan Qinghua Studio turns all of their own ultra-thin porcelain, vitrified at an extremely high firing temperature for teaware fine enough to amplify tea’s aromatics and allow light to pass through, giving each piece a glowing quality. The red brushwork is an elegant contrast to the white, and an evocative reference to the bamboo groves that grow alongside tea in the mountains of Fujian.
This impressive pitcher features a peaceful hand-painted scene highlighting a secret tea pavilion in the mountains. Pengyuan Qinghua Studio turns all of their own ultra-thin porcelain, vitrified at an extremely high firing temperature for teaware fine enough to amplify tea’s aromatics and allow light to pass through, giving each piece a glowing quality. The brushwork on this piece shows off the artist's skill at both detail in the pavilion itself, and gestural washes and abstraction on the rock face and cherry blossoms.
Gongfu tea is a celebration of abundance, and this pitcher evokes that feeling of nature’s abundance beautifully with a hand-painted pomegranate tree full of fruit and blossoms. Pengyuan Qinghua Studio turns all of their own ultra-thin porcelain, vitrified at an extremely high firing temperature for teaware fine enough to amplify tea’s aromatics and allow light to pass through, giving each piece a glowing quality. Striking detail in the brushwork around the branches is matched with a beautiful dream-like quality in the pink of the fruit itself, showing off the artist’s skill.
Classical Chinese porcelain motifs were all about the deep blue brushwork, with early blue glaze being the best color to survive the intense heat of the kiln. This pitcher evokes that classical style with an elegant hand-painted pomegranate tree. Pengyuan Qinghua Studio turns all of their own ultra-thin porcelain, vitrified at an extremely high firing temperature for teaware fine enough to amplify tea’s aromatics and allow light to pass through, giving each piece a glowing quality. Striking detail in the brushwork around the branches is matched with a beautiful dream-like quality in the blue of the fruit itself, showing off the artist’s skill.
This faceted hexagonal pitcher is the perfect pairing with a celadon gaiwan or tea pot. The facets show off the beautiful glazing work, while the modern picture style works in almost any set-up, even making a great color contrast paired with yixing clay teapots. Hand-finished and fired in a traditional Longquan kiln, this celadon is highly vitrified like glass, making it a non-reactive material that helps bring out incredible aromatic depth in your tea.
This creamy blue-green Ru glaze pitcher celebrates the tradition of bringing new life to old pieces through gold repair work. As ancient pieces are excavated, instead of preserving cracked shards, modern collectors are repairing these relics with gold so that they can be used in tea brewing the way the original artist intended. This gold work has spurred the growth of a new craft, adding adornment to the repairs- a modern dialog with ancient pieces. This Ru pot draws on the goldwork tradition with a golden motif of its own, a contrast to the lightly-crackled Ru glaze itself.
This fully hand-thrown, hand shaped tea pitcher highlights Master lin Xi’s research into ancient Song Dynasty style glazing techniques, particularly the famous and sought after Hare’s Fur style of long brown lines against black- an effect Lin Xi is able to capture because he personally excavates his glaze materials from the same sites used by Song Dynasty kilns, and blends the glaze from raw natural minerals. This pitcher's unique shape is meant to be as close as possible to the classic Jian Zhan tea bowl shape, both for the heat reflection in the kiln and to show off the glazing at the widest angles of light.
Pouring tea into such a deep nuanced pitcher lights up the subtle color variation brought on by artist Yi Xuan’s incredible three day high-temperature wood-firing process. The natural iridescence and metallic swirling is an artifact of the extreme heat patterns reflecting in the kiln. This pitcher is not glazed, its color comes entirely from iron-oxide dusts present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing. The pitcher is built out of improbably thin porcelain, not clay, since only Yi Xuan’s special porcelain blend can stand up to the outrageous heat of her kiln. The unglazed porcelain makes this piece incredibly thin and light, a true pleasure to hold in the hand.
Artist Yi Xuan took this pitcher through two full firing processes after hand shaping this beautiful piece, first, an electric firing to set the porcelain, then a dip in a hand-blended ash glaze and an extensive multi-day wood-firing in her old-school kiln, reaching temperatures so high that the pitcher has to be hand-built from her custom porcelain blend instead of traditional clay. The result of this painstaking process is a unique, deep, complex pitcher that shows off the heat signature of the kiln and the way glazing interacts with unglazed porcelain across multiple firings. Work like this is what puts the Yi Xuan Ceramics Research Institute on the map!
Our new custom aloeswood blend collaboration with Xin Yue workshop and researcher Long Bin. We used a combination of two rare aloeswoods- high end hongtu Vietnamese aloeswood for the salty smoldering qualities and a touch of Qirou aloeswood for the cooling undertones- all blended specifically to pair with tea. The incense itself is rich, thick and honeyed with a touch of cooling cedar, which builds up with the iconic saltiness of Vietnamese aloeswood evoking eucalytpus and ocean mist. The sweet depth has a smoldering intensity of star anise, goji berry and cardamom. This set is paired with a gorgeous mountainscape censer-box so that incense smoke wafting out looks like clouds and mist passing through the mountains. The box set comes with 14 sticks of special aloeswood in a wooden travel canister, a carved incense burner and stand. Each stick is about a 20 minute burn, but the aroma lingers all day.
Created by Lide Manzhaya, this wild-foraged special grade incenseis a contemplative incense experience on par with fine aloeswood - deep, foresty, sweet and utterly complex.
Created by Da Xin Tang, this Awakening coil incense is made with Sandalwood Heartwood. This coil is blended in Taiwan with Indonesian sandalwood heartwood for a beautiful and meditative incense.
Created by Da Xin Tang, this Cloud Song stick incense set blends Vietnamese & Singapore aloeswood bound with a 12% camphorwood mix.
Created by Da Xin Tang, this Honored Path Blend coil incense is true Vietnamese Hui An aloeswood. This coil is blended in Taiwan specifically for pairing with tea ceremony. Its aromas are complementary to almost any tea, but especially to oolong tea.
Created by Da Xin Tang, this Awakening stick incense is made with Sandalwood Heartwood. This incense is blended in Taiwan with Indonesian sandalwood heartwood for a beautiful and meditative incense. Awakening’s aroma is fresh, crisp and full of pine, with the deep sandalwood aroma that we associate with Buddhist temples and meditation ceremony. This association makes it perfect for tea ceremony, especially in large spaces or outdoors and in the forest. Da Xin Tang describes this tea as having a “creamy and sweet” aroma, best suited for purifying the air, relieving anxiety, and creating a cozy and comforting atmosphere. Includes: 40g box // Duration: approximately 45 minutes // Ingredients: Indonesian sandalwood heartwood
This simple and effective incense holder works as a multi-purpose tool for holding both coil and stick incense. Place in a cup, bowl, or on a plate to catch falling ash.
Created by Da Xin Tang, this Honored Path stick incense set is true Vietnamese Hui An Aloeswood. This set of 7cm sticks of incense includes two compact tubes of incense and one small porcelain incense holder.
Created by Lide Manzhaya, this reserve wild-foraged Tibetan stick incense is made according to strict principles of Traditional Tibetan Medicine Lide Manzhaya’s wild-foraged reserve incense is a contemplative incense experience, with composed resinous spice.
Created by Lide Manzhaya, this classic temple Tibetan stick incense is made according to strict principles of Traditional Tibetan Medicine. Lide Manzhaya’s classic temple incense is soothing and transportive, with cozy sweetness and spice.
These fully hand blended and hand made incense cones are a beautiful celebration of the spices and herbs of the Tibetan highlands, carefully foraged and blended according to Living Buddha Danzing Qunpei’s recipe. The cones are hollow on the inside so that incense smoke can cascade out the bottom of the cone and create a beautiful mist, a visual treat to accompany the beautiful aromatics.