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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 classic strainer make it easy to brew for a group. A beautiful draining tea board from Xiangfu Workshop is included with this set so you can pour your rinse or any extra tea right over the board and watch it drain below. The board comes with a tray to hold water, and a tube to drain to a bucket if you prefer.

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. Two white De Hua porcelain tea cups show off the color and aroma of your teas, while the tempered glass pitcher and stainless steel strainer make it easy to brew for a group. A traditional tea board frames your gongfu set in its own space and catches drips and overflow, collecting water in a hidden tray.

Everything you or your lucky friends need to get started with fine gongfu brewing, including a full portable tea set and three of our favorite scented teas to get brewing! Gongfu tea is so much fun. Instead of one big mug, you get to taste the same tea as it transforms over lots of fast steepings, one little cup at a time. A tea can start off light and sweet, then grow into something big, creamy, rich and commanding, and finally after many infusions, linger with stunning aftertaste. This set is all about rounding up the absolute essentials to experience tea gongfu-style. The Summer Garden Hand-Painted Brew Set includes a glass steeper and porcelain brew basket, plus three cups, all nestled in a travel case. This comes with Yunnan White Jasmine, Orchid-Scented Yellow Tea, and Qimen Osmanthus Black Tea. These scented teas are a great way to experience gongfu, with rich, creamy, tropical flavor notes- and make for great gifts that anyone can fall in love with and enjoy.

Xiangfu’s Zheng series is named after the stringed instrument since the carved grooves mimc the zheng’s strings. Groves running to a drain channel allow this personal-sized tea board to draw water away from your teapot, or gaiwan. The compact footprint is perfect for desk-side modern gongfu. This boat is paired with everything you need to brew fine tea at home, or to kickstart friends and family in gongfu tea brewing including 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 classic strainer make it easy to brew for a group.

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 porcelain strainer make it easy to brew for a group.

This unique De Hua porcelain has a subtle blue-green undertone brought out by a gilded golden edge, creating a lustrous contrast for an elegant series from the Peng Yuan studio. This high-fired porcelain reflects the true aroma of your tea. The gilded porcelain is paired with a tempered glass pitcher to show off the color of your brewed tea, all set on the stunning Xiangfu Storm Grey Stone Top Tea Board, a draining full gongfu set up for serious tasting.

Our friends at the Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio in Dehua have produced this stunning set of gilded porcelain tea ware with a beautiful blue green tint to the porcelain, highlighted by bands of gold. This elegant collection includes everything you need to brew fine tea- a gaiwan, two cups, a strainer and a pitcher. The whole set is crafted from highly vitrified non-reactive porcelain to give your teas a clear, focused and true aroma and flavor.

This beautifully translucent porcelain full gongfu tea set includes a gaiwan, pitcher, fine strainer, and two matching tea cups. These pieces are made in Dehua’s most famous and classical style - milk white, also known as Blanc de Chine or “China White.” This unique, almost glowing milky glaze is achieved through a fusion of glaze and body, and the introduction of iron oxide for an oxidative firing environment, different from modern reductive kiln firing. This milky style was made famous in statues of Guanyin fired in Dehua’s ancient kilns, a style that looks like white jade, but with a thinness, luster and glow only possible in fine porcelain. Each piece of high-fired, highly-vitrified porcelain is non-reactive and perfect to show off a true sense of any tea. Pair with your favorite tea cup, from hand painted porcelain to celadon or Jian Zhan.

We love modern gongfu. It’s versatility, the way it can incorporate into the everyday, the way pieces can be swapped out so easily depending on the tea, the weather and the mood. That’s why we wanted to finally offer a full modern gongfu set that shows off the ideals of this new style. What is modern gongfu? Simply, it’s tea without the draining board. Instead of a board, a runner is used and stands are put out for cups, pitchers and gaiwans. Without a board, the set is free to expand to accommodate more people, or fold up and be put away in tight spaces. Pieces can be swapped out to fit any occasion. This set includes a runner, a full set of tea tools, a Milk White Gaiwan, two aroma cup sets, a stunning glass pitcher, a tea boat for the gaiwan and a pitcher stand. The tea boat can double as a tea bowl for any rinse or extra brew. Aroma cups can be used with the tall cup to appreciate the aromatics of your tea, or you can pour directly into the tea bowl cups. All together- this set is our invitation to get into gongfu and enjoy your tea to the fullest.

This set includes a full canister of Manzhaya's Special Grade incense, a full canister of their wild foraged Reserve incense, and a package of classic temple incense, along with five of their hand-made incense cones. Nobody makes incense like Manzhaya. Their project was born out of living Buddha Danzing Qunpei’s lifetime of research into Tibetan Medicine Sutras, reviving ancient incense recipes formulated from wild herbs that can be foraged within the Meili Glacier National Park. The Special Grade, Reserve and Temple Incense are all balanced at different levels and proportions for their own unique qualities. All three are deep and evocative, like exploring an endless cedar grove. Manzhaya incense is made without chemical additives - a truly ancient old-school craft. This kit is the chance to try the full scope of Danzing Qunpei’s work and experience the very best of Tibet’s unique incense culture.

This dream-like, abstract hand-painted porcelain gongfu tea brewing set from Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio shows off the studio's 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. This full gongfu tea set includes a gaiwan, pitcher, and strainer along with two tea cups and a tea bowl. The high-fired, highly-vitrified porcelain is completely non-reactive and perfect to show off a true sense of any tea. 

With a gaiwan, strainer, and a pitcher, this tea set includes everything you need to brew fine tea.  Our friends at the Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio in Dehua have produced this stunning set of gilded porcelain tea ware with a beautiful blue green tint to the porcelain, highlighted by bands of gold. The whole set is crafted from highly vitrified non-reactive porcelain to give your teas a clear, focused and true aroma and flavor. Pair with your favorite tea cup, from hand painted porcelain to celadon or Jian Zhan.

This tea set is inspired by the professional tea setups used at fine teahouses in Xiamen, one of the biggest cultural centers for oolong tea in the world, and central to all of Fujian’s abundant tea- from Tieguanyin to white tea and Big Red Robe. A high-fired, hand-painted porcelain gaiwan brings out deep and true aromatics in your tea, while aroma cups allow you to enjoy those aromatics to the fullest. A beautiful, carved, hardwood draining tea board is there to catch any drips or rinses during long tea sessions, and provides a beautiful contrast with the glowing and nearly translucent porcelain.

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. For cups, we’ve paired our favorite fine Longquan Porcelain aroma cup sets so that you can appreciate the aroma of your tea with every brew session, in a stunning contrasting yellow.

Everything you need to get the most out of your fine teas using gongfu brewing style. A versatile porcelain gaiwan helps you do lots of steepings with the same leaf to see how a tea’s flavor unfolds, a glass pitcher and strainer are there to help you fill up everyone’s cups with each infusion, a tea board catches any drips and rinse steepings along the way, and finally, two porcelain tasting cups that show off a tea’s true aroma. Get started with gongfu and see your tea in a totally new way!

This impressive gaiwan and pitcher set 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. These matching pieces are fully vitrified and non-reactive, meaning they fully amplify the tea’s natural aromatics, making it perfect for serious tasting. This set is paired with two purple porcelain teacups high-fired in Longquan to help amplify your tea's aromatics, plus matching saucers for each cup.

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 an accessible entry point into gongfu style brewing.

This unique set comes with a solid wood tea board, a gaiwan, a pitcher and a full set of six tea cups depicting scenes from an ancient scholar’s tea studio. The Lone Deer Tea Tray has a unique warm metal cover to contrast against the wood, perfect for the thin bright, lustrous porcelain. Each porcelain piece shows off natural objects of contemplation and tea-brewing scenes inspired by Song Dynasty tea traditions.

With an evocative gestural stream hand-painted across the teapot and two bright gilded cups floating on saucers, this set is inspired by lanterns drifting on a stream. The high-fired porcelain brings out the deepest aromatic complexity in your teas, while the teapot capacity is well-matched to the two cups for cozy tea time.

This beautifully translucent porcelain gongfu tea brewing set includes a gaiwan, pitcher, and fine strainer. These pieces are made in Dehua’s most famous and classical style - milk white, also known as Blanc de Chine or “China White.” This unique, almost glowing milky glaze is achieved through a fusion of glaze and body, and the introduction of iron oxide for an oxidative firing environment, different from modern reductive kiln firing. This milky style was made famous in statues of Guanyin fired in Dehua’s ancient kilns, a style that looks like white jade, but with a thinness, luster and glow only possible in fine porcelain. Each piece of high-fired, highly-vitrified porcelain is non-reactive and perfect to show off a true sense of any tea. Pair with your favorite tea cup, from hand painted porcelain to celadon or Jian Zhan.

This full gongfu tea set features a gaiwan, teaware stand and two tea cups hand painted with a beautiful persimmon motif. The Peng Yuan Qing Hua Studio shows off their skill with stunning, highly stylized persimmons, hand-glazed 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. The gaiwan pairs with a grandiose stand that can double as a tea boat for modern gongfu tea, while the tea cups' tall shape concentrates the aroma of your tea, showing off teas like oolong especially gracefully. The highly-vitrified, high-fired porcelain is non-reactive, showing off each tea's true aroma.

These adorable hand-painted teacup friends are ready to join you for tea! This fun tea cup set features one of each cartoon friend - a dinoasaur, a pig, a rabbit, and a whale - drawn by our friends at Peng Hua Qing Yuan studio in Dehua, one of China’s ancient porcelain capitols. The patterns may be playful, but each cup is high-fired porcelain, perfect for bringing out deep aromatics in every tea!

This set draws on the Song Dynasty celadon tradition, featuring an elegant ewer whose role in tea ceremony is to cool your water before pouring over delicate green teas and white teas, along with a uniquely carved celadon gaiwan, a tea boat based on a famous Song Dynasty celadon motif, and a scalloped cup large enough for solo-brewing. Traditional high-fired Longquan kiln celadon is fully-vitrified, non-reactive and perfect for amplifying the aromatics and texture of your tea. Embrace the beautiful jade celadon inspired by the Song Dynasty pottery tradition!

Stunning, compact and elegant, this is a tea set built for special moments. Starting with a celadon teapot and matching celadon cups, this set is accented with an ornamental tea board and rippling tempered glass pitcher. The Longquan porcelain glazed celadon has crystalline depth in the light, and contrasts beautifully with any tea. The cups are tall enough to truly accentuate the aroma of anything you brew, or double as old-school aroma cups paired with a wider sipping cup.

The Peng Yuan Qing Hua Studio shows off their skill with stunning, highly stylized persimmons, hand-glazed 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 gaiwan comes with a grandiose stand that can double as a tea boat for modern gongfu tea. The highly-vitrified, high-fired porcelain is non-reactive, meaning it shows off each tea's true aromatics.

This full gongfu tea set features a gaiwan, pitcher, and six cups all showing off the implements of an ancient scholar’s studio, complete with tea tools and natural objects of contemplation. The scenes are a reminder of tea culture’s long–spanning history and the roots of modern gongfu. The red-orange accents show off the lovely bright-white porcelain, perfect for amplifying the color and aromatics of your tea.

This set pairs Xiangfu Workshop's lovely gilded yellow teacups with Qing Yuan Peng Hua's hand-painted teapot - with a capacity to fill both cups for cozy tea time. Bright, sunny yellow and wonderful floral brushwork evoke a summer garden party.

Tall, bold, angular and geometric, this celadon set features a hand-finished gaiwan, two tall cups that could easily double as aroma cups, and a hexagonal celadon pitcher. Traditional high-fired Longquan kiln celadon is fully-vitrified, non-reactive and perfect for amplifying the aromatics and texture of your tea. Embrace the beautiful jade celadon inspired by the Song Dynasty pottery tradition!

This full set is a celebration of Pengyuan Qinghua studio’s incredible work with hand painting and fine thin porcelain, including a gaiwan, a pitcher and two cups. The striking motif 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 sweet tea set is perfect for solo brewing or for gifting to anyone who loves tea. We’ve paired a beautiful little bamboo tea tray so tea can be enjoyed anywhere from the desk to in bed, along with Min Xin Tang’s high quality tempered glass teapot with built-in strainer to admire your leaves as they unfurl, and a stunning Ru glaze teacup from the master craftspeople at the Jie Feng studio in Dehua who fire their Ru pieces at over 1100 degrees celsius to bring back this Song dynasty tradition. All together, a perfect invitation to tea!

This set is meant to show off Lin Xi’s stunning oil spot, or you di glaze Jian Zhan work. You di is one of the oldest and most traditional Song Dynasty forms. Award-winning master-potter Lin Xi has done years of research on ancient techniques and in his unique one-man studio, is working to revive the ancient art of you di glazing, sourcing and blending his clay and glazing material from the original mineral deposits tapped in the Song Dynasty. The unique gaiwan and pitcher were fully hand-thrown, with glazes hand blended and dipped, and fired in a tiny batch dependent on the whims of weather and kiln heat patterns to achieve the desired effect. This set is paired with Lin Xi’s stunning, award-winning Magnolia Blossom cups, which grow deeper and more colorful over years of use. The whole set is framed off with a minimalist elegant draining tea board as a backdrop to show off the natural beauty of each one of a kind piece.

The De Hua Peng Yuan Studio is dedicated to crafting thin, lustrous and highly vitrified porcelain in De Hua, and dedicates the time and mastery to carefully hand paint the stunning gaiwan offered in this set, along with an elegant unpainted pitcher to show off the brewed tea. A modern flare and bold geometric chrysanthemum motifs set this gaiwan apart as an elegant contemporary play on traditional patterns, drawing inspiration from ancient seals and the embroidery tradition. Pair this gaiwan and pitcher with your own favorite tea cup, perhaps a green celadon cup for beautiful contrast.

This extraordinarily-limited set is inspired by the Song Dynasty scholar’s garden pavilion studio: a contemplative space away from the bustle of the house to write poetry, practice calligraphy, and critically, drink tea. Each piece was chosen for their exquisite but unassuming nature - a set of tea ware that puts the tea first, but if you look at and handle each cup, the teapot or the board itself, their beauty shines through. The pot is a special kind of Ru - a tricky, difficult to pull off white glaze. This is not your classic porcelain. Ru has a softness and inner glow that comes through in the light. It feels completely different, but in a subtle and understated way. The cups are fully hand made pieces, thrown by hand and painted by hand to a staggering level of fine detail. The thinness of these pieces piece and what the artists were able to achieve is unreal. Jingdezhen porcelain is on another level. It is no wonder it is the material of choice for professional tasters since the firing temperature means a more perfect vitrification and better reflection of aromatics. Finally, the tea board itself is made with lovely yew wood and a striking aromatic resin. This board smells like a forest when it is hot or covered in tea, bringing a piece of the outdoors to your daily brew. All together, this is a set for truly enjoying every sip.

This thin and lustrous porcleain full gongfu tea set is hand painted in a classic blue and white landscape motif by Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio in De Hua, one of China's ancient porcelain capitols. A pattern as detailed as this landscape takes years of practice, a good eye and a steady hand. This set includes a gaiwan, pitcher, strainer and two tea cups. Their high-fired, highly-vitrified porcelain is completely non-reactive and perfect to show off a true sense of any tea. 

This dream-like, abstract hand-painted porcelain gongfu tea brewing set from Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio shows off the studio's 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. This set includes a gaiwan, pitcher, and strainer. Their high-fired, highly-vitrified porcelain is completely non-reactive and perfect to show off a true sense of any tea. Pair with your favorite tea cup, from hand painted porcelain to celadon or Jian Zhan.

This impressive gaiwan and pitcher set 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. These matching pieces are fully vitrified and non-reactive, meaning they fully amplify the tea’s natural aromatics, making it perfect for serious tasting. Pair with your own favorite teacup, like a hand-made Jian Zhan piece from Lin Xi.

Jingdezhen is the ultimate in professional-level tea tasting. This high-fired porcelain is unparalleled, and used at the competition level for the way it shows a tea's truest “highest resolution” flavor, texture and aroma. We are lucky to work with the talented Yong Jing Tang Workshop, where they hand-throw every Jingdezhen piece for perfect precision and hand paint each beautiful adornment. The result is a level of teaware that is hard to even capture in photos, pieces that glow in the light and are a true pleasure to hold and sip from. This set features a hand painted gaiwan, two hand-painted cups and a hand-painted pitcher for an elegant tea set ready to show off the finest teas.

This thin and lustrous porcleain tea brewing set is hand painted in a classic blue and white landscape motif by Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio in De Hua, one of China's ancient porcelain capitols. A pattern as detailed as this landscape takes years of practice, a good eye and a steady hand. This set includes a gaiwan, pitcher, and strainer. Their high-fired, highly-vitrified porcelain is completely non-reactive and perfect to show off a true sense of any tea. Pair with your favorite tea cup, from hand painted porcelain to celadon or Jian Zhan.

Tall, bold, angular and geometric, this celadon set features a hand-finished gaiwan, two tall cups that could easily double as aroma cups, and a hexagonal celadon pitcher. Traditional high-fired Longquan kiln celadon is fully-vitrified, non-reactive and perfect for amplifying the aromatics and texture of your tea. Embrace the beautiful jade celadon inspired by the Song Dynasty pottery tradition!

A detailed and expressive baby dragon swirls in the clouds, adorning each piece in this tea set.  Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio shows off their skill with spiraling clouds, tiny dragon scales, and red highlights to complete the dragon motif. This solo tea set includes a small gongfu tea pot and a large tea cup. The high-fired porcelain itself is carefully hand assembled and detailed after forming each shape on a lathe. The vitrified porcelain is perfect for any tea, and brews up a very true aromatic profile. Pair with your favorite pitcher, or pour directly from the small pot into your cup.

The gongfu tea set includes a hand painted gaiwan, two tea cups, and a draining porcelain tea boat. The adorable daisies adorning each item of this set 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 gaiwan perfect for reflecting the aromatics of any tea.

Oil Spot or you di style is one of the oldest most traditional Jian Zhan glaze patterns, the inspiration for Japan’s Tenmokku, and artist Lin Xi’s passion. This set highlight’s Lin Xi’s work reviving the Song Dynasty tradition in his unique one-man studio and research center. Lin Xi achieves the stunning crystalline glazing pattern by excavating his own minerals from Song Dynasty kiln sites, grinding and mixing his own glaze from these natural minerals and precisely controlling oxygen levels and kiln temperature during firing. This full gongfu set features an oil spot gaiwan and pitcher, along with two unique Jian Zhan tasting cups that grow deeper and more lustrous with use.

This carefully composed tea set pairs a draining bamboo tea board from Xiangfu workshop with Ming Xin Tang’s high quality tempered glass teapot with built-in strainer to admire your leaves as they unfurl, and two stunning celadon glaze teacups. Perfect for tea by the fire or sunny weekend mornings to enjoy tea’s color, aroma and flavor to the fullest.

This set is meant to show off Lin Xi’s stunning oil spot, or you di glaze Jian Zhan work. You di is one of the oldest and most traditional Song Dynasty forms. Award-winning master-potter Lin Xi has done years of research on ancient techniques and in his unique one-man studio, is working to revive the ancient art of you di glazing, sourcing and blending his clay and glazing material from the original mineral deposits tapped in the Song Dynasty. The unique gaiwan and pitcher were fully hand-thrown, with glazes hand blended and dipped, and fired in a tiny batch dependent on the whims of weather and kiln heat patterns to achieve the desired effect. Pair with a one-of-a-kind Jian Zhan cup from Lin Xi’s latest firing for a complete effect, or contrast with Jingdezhen.

This tea set is inspired by the deep connection between Yunnan and Tibet, trading pu’er for horses in ancient times. An elegant tea board serves as the foundation to show off Dangchen Pichu’s hand built Nixi pottery, which is fired in an old-school bonfire kiln according to an ancient tradition that has been passed down in Nixi village since Tea Horse Trail days. The pitcher is used in Nixi to simmer milk tea over an open fire, but works great to brew green teas, white teas etc and simply pour from the pitcher into cups, topping off the pitcher throughout the day. Or pair with a hand-made masterwork Nixi teapot!

This beautiful hand-finished celadon tea set is a celebration of the abundance of nature featuring two flower-adorned tea goblets, a gaiwan with peonies in relief, and an elegant, modern hexagonal celadon pitcher. Traditional high-fired Longquan kiln celadon is fully-vitrified, non-reactive and perfect for amplifying the aromatics and texture of your tea. Embrace the beautiful jade celadon inspired by the Song Dynasty pottery tradition!

This full set is a celebration of Pengyuan Qinghua studio’s incredible work with hand painting and fine thin porcelain, including a gaiwan, a pitcher and two cups. 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 set 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 full tea set includes a gaiwan, pitcher, and two cups. The Pine Bough style draws on the Song Dynasty tradition of objects of scholarly contemplation with a subtle gnarled piece of wood in relief on the cups and gaiwan, a nod to the curious natural objects that were inspirational in the Song Dynasty studio. It is no small feat to achieve porcelain this thin while still featuring a relief that glows translucent in the light, accented with a fully hand-painted pine bough motif, fluid and expressive against the white porcelain. Each piece is fully vitrified and non-reactive, meaning they fully amplify the tea’s natural aromatics, making the set perfect for serious and contemplative tasting.

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.

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.

For enjoying fine tea on every adventure, from picnics and hikes to road trips, this bright cheery sunflower set is ready to go. Hand-painted sunflowers adorn three cups, and a gaiwan with built-in removable strainer that can rest on the gaiwan lid flipped over between steepings. The set is protected by a tea towel folded between each layer, and nestled into a beautiful carrying case in stitched vegan leather with carrying strap that snaps on and off for easy packing. The porcelain itself is highly-vitrified fine porcelain from the masters at Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio, perfect for reflecting all the nuance and aroma from any tea.

Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio takes their cat theme seriously, depicting each cat with the same level of detail and gestural beauty that they would put into a traditional landscape or floral motif; the set taken together shows cats in various stages of play with a wreath of flowers, from wearing them proudly, to running around with them, to lying in a pile of petals by the end of playtime. The set comes with an oversized saucer that doubles as a presentation plate between gongfu sessions, a beautiful gaiwan, a hexagonal glass pitcher, four guest cups and one larger host cup that works great for solo brewing too. The whole set is packaged in a fancy gift box for safe transit and great presentation.

This fully-furnished, beautiful Ru Yao gongfu tea set is complete with tea board, all packed into a vintage-inspired travel case! Arrive in style with this vegan-leather luggage case carefully packed with Jie Feng studio’s adorable Ru Gaiwan and four matching cups, along with a  decorative scalloped tempered glass pitcher and bamboo tea tray to finish out the set up. Everything you need to enjoy your favorite teas on the go.

Jie Feng Studio creates exquisitely soft Ru glaze pottery, full of depth and light crazing. This clever brew mug packs into a protective travel case to bring on trips, take to work, or carry outside to the park. The mug includes a lid and strainer so the tea stays hot while steeping and so that the strainer has a neat place to rest between infusions. The strainer holes are incorporated into the form to avoid the need for a plastic strainer mesh. The gorgeous creamy blue grows deeper over time, contrasting against the crackling as the piece absorbs tea for a beautiful luster. This particularly fine Ru shows off a crystalline depth and subtlety that sets it truly apart.

Hand-painted butterfly, flowers and a hidden cat adorn this clever compact gongfu travel tea set, which includes a pitcher, infuser brew basket, three cups, and an infuser saucer that doubles as a fourth larger solo-tasting cup. The larger cup has three legs that form ears and a little nose for a hidden cat peaking out from the blue wash. Strainer holes are incorporated directly into the porcelain, with no plastic mesh used. Each cup is high-fired and hand painted by the Pengyuan Qinghua Studio in Dehua, one of the historic capitals of ancient porcelain. The whole set packs into a protective case with carabiner for the perfect active travel set up.

This convenient Xiang Fu ( 祥福 / Stone Leaf Tea Set ) travel mug combines glass, natural bamboo and porcelain for a beautiful self-contained brewing solution for at home and on the go. Bamboo protects you from the heat while the glass helps show off the beautiful color of your tea, while a rubber ring insulates and protects your tables from heat. Everything comes apart for easy cleaning, then packs back up into the sturdy travel case.

This stunning, vibrant tea set includes a gaiwan and four tasting cups, all meticulously hand-thrown, carefully air-dried, carved down exquisitely thin, high-fired, glazed and re-fired for an exquisite, fully non-reactive tea set ready for professional tasting. The whole set comes in a travel case so you can take your gallery-level Jingdezhen porcelain on the go!

This is Xiangfu’s absolute smallest gongfu travel kit. This simple kit includes a gaiwan with removable strainer and three cups that stack and nest in the gaiwan, all bundled together in a padded green drawstring bag. It’s everything you need to enjoy your favorite tea with the smallest footprint possible, and a great intro to gongfu-style brewing for anyone looking to dive in and get the most out of their tea.

A full gongfu set in its own side-satchel carry case? Yes, please! This new set from Xiangfu includes a bamboo tea board that houses a glass gaiwan with removable porcelain strainer, four cups, a bamboo tweezers and a tea cloth so you’ll never be without your favorite tea when you are picnicking, or out and about. There’s even space for several bags of tea in the tea board to keep the whole set-up together when you travel

Xiangfu delivers full-on gongfu brewing in the smallest most portable form factor with this new set. Three stylish blue and white porcelain cups nest inside a glass and bamboo brewer with a matching removable porcelain strainer and top. You can control brew time by removing the strainer, and pour from the pitcher into each cup for multi-infusion gongfu. When you are done, pack it up in the durable carbon-fiber case and take it on the go.

This classic bundled tea + teaware set includes six teas, one travel tea set, and $10 Tea Cash free gift voucher code to use on your next purchase!

This special bundle includes eight 25g loose leaf teas for 200g total (about 40 quarts of iced tea). Make Tea Fun and Easy this summer with our special Iced Tea Tasting Kit! Enjoy our Top Picks for making cold brew iced tea in the summer time. This special tasting kit includes our top picks for making cold brew iced tea in the summer time, along with easy brewing instructions. The tasting kit also includes a FREE GIFT of a sealable glass jar for making easy cold brew iced tea!

This Tea Sampler includes ten 25g bags of fine black tea for 250g total (50 brewing sessions). Black tea is going through a renaissance in China. Farmers like Li Xiangxi in Wuyishan are pushing the boundaries of craft, and pulling out all the stops with rare, sometimes wild-picked harvests from coveted microclimates. This tea sampler is all about trying the very rarest, most stunning examples of black tea craft in the world- the pride and joy of each of our partner-farmers. From wild tree teas that only grow in high elevation groves in Wuyishan and Yunnan, to luxurious buddy golden black teas that brew up smooth as silk this sampler reveals the stunning complexity of modern black tea craft at its finest.

This bundle includes twelve caffeine-free wild-foraged herbal teas for 300g total (roughly 60 brewing sessions). The He Family and the Lu Family in Laoshan are bringing green tea craft to wild-foraged caffeine-free herbals picked within the Laoshan Ecological Preserve in extremely limited quantities. This kit is an introduction to the way that tea craft brings nuance, depth and complexity to plants beyond camellia sinensis, and offers satisfying diverse and fully caffeine-free flavors perfect for any time of day. The He Family and the Li Family are dedicated to sustainable agriculture, and meticulous hand-finishing craft in the workshop. This kit is an invitation to see their craft in action.

This Fresh Green Tea Bundle includes all of the freshest 2025 seasonal green teas from three of our partners. 

This bundle includes seven 25g bags of scented + blended floral tea for 175g total (about 35 sessions).

This special tasting kit includes hand picked white, black, and green teas scented traditionally with beautiful jasmine and osmanthus flowers. Each tea is scented traditionally - without artifical or added aromas or flavorings - using simply the natural fragrance of the blended jasmine or osmanthus flowers. These traditional methods produce teas that are full and rich,  with brews that hold their intense sweetness and natural potency over many steepings. 

This black tea sampler includes six 25g loose leaf black tea bags picked, finished and packed on small family farms that make some of the best teas in the world, run with the sustainability and beyond-organic practices that can only come from one generation tending land that they will pass down to their children. The rich deep complexity of the finest black teas comes from stringent picking standards for the ideal tender bud and leaf mix, and from slow careful oxidation to bring out more nuance in small batches. This tasting kit is an introduction to the incredible diversity of flavor that our partners offer with their black teas from malty chocolate-driven Laoshan Black from the north of China to traditional and complex Wuyi black teas. Through craft, varietal, and microclimate, our farmer-partners are proud to represent the best that China has to offer.

This bundle includes four 25g bags and one 100g cake of white tea for 200g total (about 40 sessions). China is going through a white tea renaissance of sorts - a pivotal moment in the history of an incredibly unique kind of tea thanks to surging popularity and innovators across the country bringing new techniques together with ancient tradition. On the one hand, old-school white tea craft is all about locking in the freshest most aromatic flavor possible from buddy da bai varietal leaf. On the other hand, modern white tea pioneers are taking that fresh flavor and aging it, scenting it or blending it with other ingredients.

This bundle includes one 28g white tea cake, four tea stuffed mandarins, and four 25g bags for 178 grams total (about 25+ sessions). This kit is a chance to taste Xingyang's award-winning clean fermentation style and meticulous blending craft, including mini tuocha, golden leaf shu, KT952, and tea stuffed mandarins.

This bundle includes seven 25g bags of Wuyi tea for 175g total (35 sessions). Wuyishan is one of the most famous tea growing regions in the world, and true hand-crafted tea from within the Wuyi Ecological Preserve is incredibly elusive with a proliferation of imitations out there. That is why we are so lucky to be working with the dynamic award-winning Li Family, who have been visionaries in restoring biodiversity and forest cover within the preserve and leaders in oolong craft.

Li Xiangxi, founder of the Yangxian Institute of Tea Culture, works with her brother and cousin to finish deep aromatic and wildly complex oolongs, as well as traditional old-school black teas from their ancestral home in Tongmu.

This collection represents a classic tasting curriculum, spanning the most important flavors, textures and aromas to be familiar with in beginning to understand what makes Wuyishan so special. This kit has been put together to provide a foundation to explore the wider Li Family collection with a deep tasting vocabulary, and of course, to come out with a true sense of the Wuyi microclimate.

This bundle includes five 25g bags of oolong tea for 125g total (25 sessions). Oolong is the most technically-demanding and time-consuming tea in the world to produce, and our partners take on the challenge relying on their own hands and their senses, not machinery, meaning sleepless nights and 20 hour days in the workshop to finish their tiny micro-batches of varietal-driven oolongs that honor their specific microclimates, from Wudongshan to Daping Village.

This sampler brings together iconic oolong teas from our partners across China to share a glimpse at the magic and complexity that comes out in the long turning and fluffing process that defines oolong teas and gives you a sense of how many styles can exist within this single category, from dark roasts and aged oolong to fresh floral vibrant green oolong.

Everything you or your lucky friends need to get started with fine gongfu brewing, including a full portable tea set and three of our favorite scented teas to get brewing! Gongfu tea is so much fun. Instead of one big mug, you get to taste the same tea as it transforms over lots of fast steepings, one little cup at a time. A tea can start off light and sweet, then grow into something big, creamy, rich and commanding, and finally after many infusions, linger with stunning aftertaste. This set is all about rounding up the absolute essentials to experience tea gongfu-style. The Summer Garden Hand-Painted Brew Set includes a glass steeper and porcelain brew basket, plus three cups, all nestled in a travel case. This comes with Yunnan White Jasmine, Orchid-Scented Yellow Tea, and Qimen Osmanthus Black Tea. These scented teas are a great way to experience gongfu, with rich, creamy, tropical flavor notes- and make for great gifts that anyone can fall in love with and enjoy.

We believe that green tea should be as fresh as possible. That is why we work Mrs. Li in Dragonwell and the He Family in Laoshan to buy before the harvest, seal tea in their final bags within days of picking and rush ship each small batch as they are finished. Our partners work hard to manage biodiverse beyond-organic farms, hand pick their tea and carefully hand-finish in small batches to lock in the rich sweet complexity that fine green tea is known for.

This bundle includes six 25g bags of Laoshan tea for 150g total (30 sessions). The He Family were some of the first to plant tea in Laoshan, one of China’s newest and northernmost tea growing regions. Laoshan is a mountain village on the ocean, subject to cold winters that give the tea a flavor unlike any other on earth. Mr. He has established a cooperative to promote his award-winning vision for sustainable beyond-organic agriculture and rigorous technically demanding craft.

This collection represents the most classic and iconically representative teas the He Family produces. It is an invitation from Mr. He, Qingqing and the whole family to get to know their passion and their unwavering commitment to make Laoshan one of the most famous tea regions in China. 

While every tea in the collection represents a tremendous diversity of flavor, the whole collection circles around the iconic rich malty soybean profile of the region and the rocky texture of the mountain soil.

This kit includes five 25g bags of tea and one special 7g canister, for 26 extended brewing session of six kinds of tea. This tasting kit is all about the famous and iconic Rou Gui. This elusive, shapeshifting varietal has defined modern oolong in Wuyishan for its ability to give a perfect and transparent expression of land and craft. Rou Gui growing in the nest microclimates, finished by the best craftspeople is thrilling, electrical, cooling and deeply textural oolong unlike any other. That's why the Li Family in Wuyishan offers FOUR different Rou Gui oolongs, and Master Zhang in Anxi has two of his own Rou Gui oolongs, even though he is in a region most famous for Tieguanyin. Tasting fine Rou Gui is tasting "yun" the cooling electrical, sweet mouth-watering sensation that the best teas share. This kit is packed with yun, including classic Rou Gui, Gold Medal (competition winning) Rou Gui, a special Shui Mi Tao Rou Gui that is finished to bring out juicy stone fruit aromas, and the rarest of all- Ma Tou Rou Gui, picked and grown by Li Xiangxi's family. Taste and compare to the newcomer Anxi Rou Gui from Master Zhang and his masterpiece- Special Grade Rou Gui Revival, a tea made based on his research of ancient oolong finishing techniques.

This bundle includes four 25g bags of Qianjiazhai tea and one full 100g cakes for 200g total. The Zhenyuan Dongsa Cooperative of Qianjiazhai is a loose-knit coalition of families across the remote mountaintops of China’s oldest tea forests dedicated to sustainable stewardship of the wild tea plants, and careful foraging from trees that can be over a thousand years old.

Master Zhou founded the cooperative to refine the finishing craft and picking techniques across Qianjiazhai and bring more well-deserved respect to one of China’s most important but also most unknown tea regions. This tasting kit is an introduction to the incredible diversity of flavor, texture, aroma and aftertaste that wild-foraging in an ancient tea forest can bring.

This kit is an invitation into a little-seen side of tea and its ancient wild origins.