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This clever circular teaboard features a fully waterproof hidden plastic tray to protect the beautiful bamboo board itself. The circular tea board is a statement piece in gongfu brewing, a symbol of everyone’s equal place at the table for tea, and a mirror of the circular gaiwan, pitcher and cups. Boards like these can be used on their own for a compact set-up at a desk, or as a tea boat for your favorite Yixing pot, lined up on a runner with a pitcher, cups, and water bowl for a full-sized elegant modern gongfu set. The dot and line motif for draining is inspired by the trigrams of the Yi Ching.
Every few years, Xiangfu Workshop releases a flagship teaboard, one that they designed to meet any brewing need flexibly and affordably. This simple bamboo draining tea tray with an elegant bird motif is Xiangfu’s answer to the essential teaboard, the one that they outfit tea tasting schools, and teahouses with for everyday heavy use. If you are ready to get started with gongfu brewing, this tray is ready to be the foundation to years of tasting.
When you have an exquisite tea set up, the board should be there to help every cup, teapot, and the tea itself really shine. This stunning centerpiece minimalist tea board does just that. No lip, on slats for draining - just a simple, carefully cut and sloped piece of bamboo with just a few drain holes lined up down the center. For a perfectly minimalist look, you can let water drain to the hidden plastic tray without a drain tube, but for big sessions, you can hook in the drain tube to keep going all day.
If you have gongfu tea every day, you might have a whole table devoted to your tea set up. If so, this centerpiece board is the perfect piece to serve as a backdrop to all your beautiful cups and teapots. This board can facilitate big group gongfu tastings, or side-by-side comparisons where you might have multiple gaiwans going at once. Or it can serve as a beautiful display for your prized Yixing between uses. No matter the set up, this board is ready to help create incredible gongfu sessions. You can either let water drain to a built-in hadden tray, or connect the included pump and tube to drain water to a larger basin.
The circular tea board is a statement piece in gongfu brewing, a symbol of everyone’s equal place at the table for tea, and a mirror of the circular gaiwan, pitcher and cups. Boards like these can be used on their own for a compact set-up at a desk, or as a tea boat for your favorite Yixing pot, lined up on a runner with a pitcher, cups, and water bowl for a full-sized elegant modern gongfu set. This bamboo board by Xiangfu features a ba gua - inspired grid of holes for your rinse water to drain and ample capacity for several gongfu sessions in a row.
The circular platform with a carved lotus is the centerpiece of this board, serving as a place for a favorite teapot or gaiwan, while the carved channels are perfect for cups and pitchers. This deep, dark, solid board is actually made from dense resin-soaked bamboo that is kiln-fired for deep color. The board can be used with a drain cap for modern gongfu or with a tube in place for traditional draining gongfu tea.
A carved bird motif is paired with cleverly designed grooves running along the surface to a drain channel that goes all the way around. This allows for a draining board with no slope. The fact that water poured over teapots drains away, even under the pot itself makes this style the preferred board for yixing collectors looking to show off their most beautiful pieces. A tube is included for flexible drainage, but the board is also a gorgeous framing piece in modern gongfu sets with a water bowl.
The geometric lines intersecting the octagonal window evoke mist rolling by in the early morning. They also serve as a channel to drain this evocative tea board. A favorite teapot in the choice ‘window spot’ gives it center stage. This board draws on Xiangfu’s rich experience with bamboo as part of their new “Sacred Fig Tree” series, a new style of board made with dense, resin-soaked bamboo for solid weight and durability.
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.
This board is cleverly designed with grooves running along the surface to a drain channel that goes all the way around. This allows for a draining board with no slope. The fact that water poured over teapots drains away, even under the pot itself, makes this style the preferred board for yixing collectors looking to show off their most beautiful pieces. A tube is included for flexible drainage, but the board is also a gorgeous framing piece in modern gongfu sets with a water bowl.
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.
Lightweight and practical, this compact circular mini tea board is just big enough for a teapot or gaiwan, a pitcher and two cups. It is made from renewable bamboo, and a hard plastic ceramic composite base that is unbreakable and super easy to clean. The black and bamboo motif with abstract mountains and water is an elegant but simple platform to show off your tea wares.
These flexible compact tea trays are being offered at a steep 30% discount to reflect light cosmetic scratches on their surface. These minor surface scratches do not impact the daily performance of these affordable tea trays, but please be sure to review these example detail shots. 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 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 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 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.
This tarnished tea board is available at a steep 30% off discount. The perfect smooth surface of this board serves to highlight the stunning polished wood grain pattern in this solid walnut, carved by Jianyi workshop. The clever design includes a center drain with an outlet hidden under the board. The wood grain is accented by elegant metal adornment, a restrained border and center line delineating space for brewing vessel and cups. This board comes with a tube and pump for draining when used in traditional gongfu ceremony with full steepings poured over yixing teapots. Of course, the surface makes an incredible backdrop for modern gongfu to catch the occasional drop as well.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Gongfu tea is all about adaptability. Sometimes you want to carry tea to the backyard - sometimes you want it in bed. This simple and sweet little bamboo tray is the perfect base to a perfect spur-of-the-moment cup, carefully crafted from bamboo with a beautifully deep finish.
This beautiful tea boat from Xiangfu studio shows off their mastery of wood carving with a crackle motif and contrasting curved board shape, evocative of artistic patterns inspired by the exchange between China and the middle east through the Silk Road. The lip around the board itself will catch drips as you brew, making it the perfect backdrop for modern gongfu paired with a water bowl. Compact enough to be used on a desk with a full set of gaiwan, pitcher and cups, or as part of a larger modern gongfu set up, this is an elegant and versatile piece to have on hand for tea or even iced drinks in the summer.
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.
This stunning and truly unique tea boat from Xiangfu workshop is made from a combination of aromatic yew wood and resin. Beautiful pieces of yew are selected for their unique wood grains and shapes, and allowed to truly stand out against the swirled resin. This hand-building process means every piece is unlike any other. When the fragrant board is used for tea, the heat and moisture bring out deep forestry aromatics in the wood, bringing nature to your daily tea.
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, keeping it even and well-seasoned. The compact footprint is perfect for desk-side modern gongfu.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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.