Verdant Tea

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.

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.

The Peng Yuan Qing Hua Studio shows off their skill with beautiful, highly stylized persimmons. This grandiose stand can double as a saucer for your gaiwan or a flexible tea boat for modern gongfu tea. It is hand-painted 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 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.

This is the perfect companion for modern gongfu- small, flexible and portable, this tea boat can be used with any gaiwan, or yixing teapot. The boat’s basin holds a full steeping of tea so that you can still pour your rinse over a pot to season it, but takes up less space than a full tea board. The boat can be lined up with a pitcher and cups for a full set that can go anywhere, not just a dedicated tea table. The adorable daisies adorning this tea boat 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 tea boat.

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 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. 

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 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 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.

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.

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.