Verdant Tea

This solid wood tea board is perfectly-sized for elegant modern gongfu with a low profile that shows off your teaware. The metal top provides a warm contrast against the wood, featuring a lone deer silhouette that doubles as a drain for your tea as you pour over the board.

This flexible tea tray is a perfect foundation for your gongfu tea, perfectly sized for a gaiwan or teapot, a pitcher and several cups. The board will catch any tea you pour over it and the lid is removable for draining. A timeless bamboo tea tray elevates your gongfu brewing and frames off your tasting while containing leaves, water etc so you can focus on the tea.

This tarnished tea board is available at a steep 30% off discount. This stunning walnut tea board by Jianyi Workshop features deep channels for water to flow underneath teaware, leaving the gongfu set up dry and elegant. This is particularly well-suited to brewing with yixing teapots so that tea water doesn’t pool under the pot, allowing you to maintain an even and professional patina. The beautiful grain of the walnut is allowed to come through and bring a natural presence to gongfu ceremony, while metal accents adorn the border. Elegant calligraphy inscribes the sentiment that “Time flows like water,” perfected suited to the way tea ceremony flows. This board comes with a tube and pump for draining when used in traditional gongfu ceremony with full steepings poured over yixing teapots, or can be plugged and used as a stunning surface for modern gongfu to catch drips.

This tarnished tea board is available at a steep 30% off discount. This refined tea board is perfectly compact, just large enough for a beautiful set up of teapot, pitcher, strainer and two cups. The channel around the outside collects water in traditional gongfu ceremony, and drains through a detachable tube and pump. The elegant walnut wood grain is accented by bold ginkgo leaf motifs and a solid banded border. This board was carved by Jianyi workshop as a perfect desktop companion for smaller spaces, and can be easily used as a modern gongfu board by plugging the drain, making it a portable and flexible gongfu solution.

The natural rough hewn-texture of this monumental stone tea board serves as a grounded foundation for gongfu tea. The choice of material is a critical piece of the overall balance of a gongfu set up, and stone evokes the rocky landscapes where fine tea grows, while reflecting on the minerals-driven textural complexity of great tea. The hewn grey of this board turns dark and lustrous as hot water is poured over it, and the water flows down the channel along the edges to drain to maintain a clean modern look. For modern gongfu ceremony, cap the drain with the included cap and the board works as a stunning tea boat.

This beautiful full-sized tea tray from Xiangfu Design Studio embraces their humble origins as a small workshop of bamboo crafters. The Chinese name 水云间 literally means “the space between clouds and water,” an evocative image that inspires the cut channels that serve as the drain for water poured during tea ceremony to run into the hidden tray underneath. The channels mirror the steam on a just brewed cup of tea rising and swirling, priming the tea board as a special “space” for tea. For big group tea sessions, this board has a drain with a tube so that you can keep brewing without emptying the tray itself.

The shining metal inlay landscape of the tea board that forms the foundation of this set is inspiration for a winter theme. A rippling glass gaiwan, like carved ice, and a turquoise hand-thrown Jian Zhan cup by master potter Lin Xi complete the winter night scene - a contemplative set just right for solo brewing, and compact enough to put on your desk. The unique spout design of the gaiwan allow you to pour straight into the large Jian Zhan cup without a pitcher for a streamlined setup.

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.

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.

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