Verdant Tea

This pitcher and brewing vessel is one of the oldest forms in Nixi pottery, with archaeological excavations unearthing similar pieces from over 2000 years ago. The form was originally designed for heating over a brazier to simmer yak butter tea. Today, many households use the ancient form as part of the more modern tea ceremony, adapted in Tibetan Nixi to simmering shu pu’er with salt. The elegance of the ancient form makes this a perfect pitcher to keep tea hot, while bringing deep minerality and forest-like aroma to each brew and slowly absorbing flavor and texture. Each hand made pitcher is unique with natural variation in finish and texture.

This pitcher and brewing vessel is one of the oldest forms in Nixi pottery, with archaeological excavations unearthing similar pieces from over 2000 years ago. The form was originally designed for heating over a brazier to simmer yak butter tea. Today, many households use the ancient form as part of the more modern tea ceremony, adapted in Tibetan Nixi to simmering shu pu’er with salt. The elegance of the ancient form makes this a perfect pitcher to keep tea hot, while bringing deep minerality and forest-like aroma to the brew and slowly absorbing flavor and texture just like yixing pottery. The inlay work would have originally been done with shells in ancient times, but now, Nixi potters like Dangzhen Pichu are collaborating with masters in Jingdezhen, and the current practice now uses carefully trimmed pieces of porcelain as a tribute to an intersection of traditions. Each hand made pitcher is unique with natural variation in finish and texture.

The modern form of this pitcher makes it a clean and striking addition to any tea set. The bright white high-fired porcelain is perfect for bringing out the aromatics in any tea, and provides a beautiful contrast to the color of the finished brew. The Peng Yuan Studio sculpted this pitcher for a graceful spout that forms naturally from the top edges.

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 classic pitcher is a pleasure to hold and a beautiful contrast to the color of tea, especially as it crackles over time.

This lustrous high-fired porcelain pitcher from De Hua is highly vitrified and non-reactive, presenting a clean focused aroma in your teas. The meticulously hand-painted landscape depicts distant mountains, trees growing from rocky outcroppings and small boats, very evocative of the Wuyishan tea growing region.

This tall, elegant pitcher is made from lustrous De Hua high-fired porcelain. The highly vitrified porcelain is non-reactive, presenting a clean focused aroma in your teas. The gold gilding is a beautiful contrast to the subtle blue-green hue in the porcelain.

This complete tea set is cleverly designed to fold up into a beautiful carrying case wrapped in a cloth runner so that you can enjoy full gongfu tea, no matter where life takes you. The long, elegant folding slats tea board has room for four beautiful porcelain cups, tall enough to really capture the aromatics of your tea, along with a porcelain brew pitcher versatile enough to brew anything. The whole set fits back in its formed case, which is secured inside the folding tea board itself. The reversible runner buttons securely around the folded board. includes: (1) runner, (1) folding slats tea board, (1) brewing pitcher, (4) tea cups

The beautiful hand-painted motif on this high-fired pitcher draws on the Tang dynasty tradition of gardens set up for scholarly contemplation and meditation, highlighting the beauty of natural objects like unique rocks and trees through the seasons.

Oil Spot, or 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. This unique pitcher was fully hand-thrown, with glazes hand blended and dipped, and fired in tiny batches dependent on the whims of weather and kiln heat patterns to achieve the desired effect. Each of Lin Xi’s pitchers is unique, relying on his technique of throwing a wide cup and ‘flicking’ the spout shape at the last moment to achieve the most fluid look. This technique requires the perfect weight and thickness of cup and even just the right humidity and weather to get right, so Lin Xi makes very few pitchers each year.

This thin, fine and lustrous porcelain pitcher was hand painted by the Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio. The pitcher is carefully shaped and hand finished before firing. This highly vitrified porcelain is non-reactive and perfect for any tea.

Xiangfu Workshop’s new line of Ge Song Celadon is fired using traditional techniques in Longquan, the birthplace of Celadon pottery. The light crackling on this bluer shade of celadon grows over a lifetime of use, slowly filling in darker with tea for a beautiful effect.

This lustrous, stunningly thin fully hand made pitcher is high fired and fully vitrified for the most non-reactive, aroma-amplifying porcelain possible. The craft of the Chun He Hui Guan studio is apparent in the graceful sweeping arc of the pitcher body and of course, the Chun He Hui Guan Studio’s signature gold work, a beautiful contrast to the almost glowing translucence of the porcelain itself.

Striking blue against brilliant white is the most classic and evocative style of Chinese porcelain. This pitcher was meticulously hand-painted using an incredibly fine brush, a steady hand, and a careful eye for a gorgeous freeform branch motif that evokes the abundance of late spring. The artists of the De Hua Peng Yuan Studio are dedicated to honoring the art of porcelain with lustrous and highly vitrified pieces that reflect the true aroma of tea.