Verdant Tea

This brilliantly-assembled essential gongfu set is everything you need to make the time and space for fine tea, wherever you may be. The set includes a fine lustrous porcelain gaiwan, edged with a warm natural band for contrast, three matching cups with just the right flare to bring out the aromatics of tea, a tempered glass pitcher to show off the color of the finished brew, a tea towel that doubles as a runner for a formal gongfu set up, and a plastic case to dump extra tea whose lid doubles as a tea boat for your gaiwan. Everything packs into a hard case zip carrier that takes up less space than a single folded T-shirt. The perfect essential gongfu solution.

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 tea boat is a perfect tool for modern gongfu tea without a tea board. The combination of coasters, tea boats and a water bowl allow you to define any space for tea and reconfigure as needed. This tea boat is perfect for pitchers, gaiwans or yixing tea pots to catch any drips while brewing and dramatically set off your fine tea ware for appreciation.

This ceramic stand is the perfect pairing with a tea boat. The boat can hold your teapot or gaiwan while the stand sets off your pitcher for a truly elegant modern gongfu set up. While not in active use, the stand makes a perfect display stand for your most treasured yixing pottery or ceramics.

This ceramic tea boat is an elegant modern solution to gongfu tea. It is meant to hold an yixing teapot, gaiwan or pitcher and catch spills or hold tea poured over a pot without taking up as much space as a board. Use with runners and coasters for a modern gongfu set up that can be reconfigured and expanded as needed. Compact enough for travel or tea at work.

This tea boat is designed to hold an yixing pot or gaiwan in modern gongfu ceremony. It has a large enough reservoir to pour the first steeping over an yixing pot to help season the pot and build patina. A tea boat is an elegant solution, eliminating the need for a large tea board by catching drips and spills. Paired with coasters and a runner, it makes for an beautiful and flexible tea set up.

This dramatic dark wood tea boat is carved with 福, meaning good luck and blessing. The grooves in the carving give water a place to run off when brewing modern gongfu tea. The tea boat is a critical piece of the modern gongfu style, allowing brewing without a large tea board.

This gorgeous solid wood tea boat is carved with slats to allow drips and spills to run off from your fine tea ware. The red color is a dramatic contrast to both porcelain and yixing. The tea boat is a critical piece of the modern gongfu style, allowing brewing without a large tea board. This solid, surprisingly heavy piece will round out your modern gongfu set up and last a lifetime.

This long and elegant tea board was designed to facilitate clean, modern gongfu - a contemporary ceremony where a bowl is used to catch extra water, and the pieces are more interchangeable and portable. This board has room for a gaiwan, a pitcher, strainer, and two to four cups, but still fits on a desk or living room table without issue. The bold carving reflects the mountainous topography of tea growing regions like Wuyishan, and also forms channels to catch any water that drips while brewing.