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This adorable hand-painted teacup celebrates the fun and wild side of tea with a friendly cartoon dinosaur, drawn by our friends at Peng Hua Qing Yuan studio in Dehua, one of China’s ancient porcelain capitols. The pattern may be playful, but the cup is high-fired porcelain, perfect for bringing out deep aromatics in every tea!

The rabbit is a symbol of luck, and this teatime companion rabbit is ready to make every brew session as lucky as can be! Hand-painted by our friends at Peng Hua Qing Yuan studio in Dehua, one of China’s ancient porcelain capitols. The pattern may be playful, but the cup is high-fired porcelain, perfect for bringing out deep aromatics in every tea!

This happy whale will be even happier swimming in your best teas! Hand-painted by our friends at Peng Hua Qing Yuan studio in Dehua, one of China’s ancient porcelain capitols. The pattern may be playful, but the cup is high-fired porcelain, perfect for bringing out deep aromatics in every tea!

This beautiful and fine porcelain cup draws on the Song Dynasty tradition of objects of scholarly contemplation with a subtle gnarled piece of wood in relief, a nod to the curious natural objects that were inspirational in the Song Dynasty studio. It is no small feat to achieve porcelain this thin while still featuring a relief that glows translucent in the light, accented with a fully hand-painted pine bough motif, fluid and expressive against the white porcelain. This piece is fully vitrified and non-reactive, meaning it fully amplifies the tea’s natural aromatics, making it perfect for serious tasting.

This beautiful and fine porcelain cup draws on the Song Dynasty tradition of objects of scholarly contemplation with a subtle gnarled piece of wood in relief, a nod to the curious natural objects that were inspirational in the Song Dynasty studio. It is no small feat to achieve porcelain this thin while still featuring a relief that glows translucent in the light, accented with a fully hand-painted bamboo motif fired in both blue and green, fluid and expressive against the white porcelain. This piece is fully vitrified and non-reactive, meaning it fully amplifies the tea’s natural aromatics, making it perfect for serious tasting.

This striking cup features a hand-painted motif of delicate bamboo swaying in the wind. Pengyuan Qinghua Studio turns all of their own ultra-thin porcelain, vitrified at an extremely high firing temperature for teaware fine enough to amplify tea’s aromatics and allow light to pass through, giving each piece a glowing quality. The red brushwork is an elegant contrast to the white, and an evocative reference to the bamboo groves that grow alongside tea in the mountains of Fujian.

This impressive cup features a peaceful hand-painted scene highlighting a secret tea pavilion in the mountains. Pengyuan Qinghua Studio turns all of their own ultra-thin porcelain, vitrified at an extremely high firing temperature for teaware fine enough to amplify tea’s aromatics and allow light to pass through, giving each piece a glowing quality. The brushwork on this piece shows off the artist's skill at both detail in the pavilion itself, and gestural washes and abstraction on the rock face and cherry blossoms.

Gongfu tea is a celebration of abundance, and this cup evokes that feeling of nature’s abundance beautifully with a hand-painted pomegranate tree full of fruit and blossoms. Pengyuan Qinghua Studio turns all of their own ultra-thin porcelain, vitrified at an extremely high firing temperature for teaware fine enough to amplify tea’s aromatics and allow light to pass through, giving each piece a glowing quality. Striking detail in the brushwork around the branches is matched with a beautiful dream-like quality in the pink of the fruit itself, showing off the artist’s skill.

Classical Chinese porcelain motifs were all about the deep blue brushwork, with early blue glaze being the best color to survive the intense heat of the kiln. This cup evokes that classical style with an elegant hand-painted pomegranate tree. Pengyuan Qinghua Studio turns all of their own ultra-thin porcelain, vitrified at an extremely high firing temperature for teaware fine enough to amplify tea’s aromatics and allow light to pass through, giving each piece a glowing quality. Striking detail in the brushwork around the branches is matched with a beautiful dream-like quality in the blue of the fruit itself, showing off the artist’s skill.

Thin, fine and lustrous, this delicate cup’s tall shape and thin edge help to accentuate aroma and aerate tea as you sip. The classic blue and white landscape motif was meticulously hand-painted by Peng Yuan Qing Hua Studio in De Hua, one of China’s ancient porcelain capitols. The fine brushwork of a detailed pattern like this take years of practice, a good eye and a steady hand.

The adorable daisies adorning this tea cup 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 cup perfect for reflecting the aromatics of any tea.

Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio takes their cat theme seriously, depicting the lounging cat on this gongfu tea cup with the same level of detail and gestural beauty that they would put into a traditional landscape or floral motif. The cups shows a cat relaxing in a pile of flower petals. The porcelain itself is carefully shaped on a lathe and hand smoothed and polished before high temperature firing that yields full vitrification for a non-reactive surface that amplifies and reflects aromatics.

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 highly-vitrified, high-fired porcelain is non-reactive, meaning it shows off each tea's true aromatics. The cup’s tall shape concentrates the aroma of your tea even more, showing off teas like oolong especially gracefully.

These adorable hand-painted teacup friends are ready to join you for tea! This fun tea cup set features one of each cartoon friend - a dinoasaur, a pig, a rabbit, and a whale - drawn by our friends at Peng Hua Qing Yuan studio in Dehua, one of China’s ancient porcelain capitols. The patterns may be playful, but each cup is high-fired porcelain, perfect for bringing out deep aromatics in every tea!

This full set shows off all the tea implements of an ancient scholars studio with scenes that connect modern gongfu to its old-school traditions including calligraphy tools, natural objects of contemplation and of course tea pots. The set includes six cups so that you have enough for any occasion. The red band around the cups highlights the lovely bright porcelain, perfect for showing off your favorite teas.

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. The cups are high fired porcelain from Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio in Dehua. The tempered glass pitcher and porcelain strainer make it easy to brew for a group.

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.

Hand-painted butterfly, flowers and a hidden cat adorn this clever compact gongfu travel tea set, which includes a pitcher, infuser brew basket, three cups, and an infuser saucer that doubles as a fourth larger solo-tasting cup. The larger cup has three legs that form ears and a little nose for a hidden cat peaking out from the blue wash. Strainer holes are incorporated directly into the porcelain, with no plastic mesh used. Each cup is high-fired and hand painted by the Pengyuan Qinghua Studio in Dehua, one of the historic capitals of ancient porcelain. The whole set packs into a protective case with carabiner for the perfect active travel set up.

For enjoying fine tea on every adventure, from picnics and hikes to road trips, this bright cheery sunflower set is ready to go. Hand-painted sunflowers adorn three cups, and a gaiwan with built-in removable strainer that can rest on the gaiwan lid flipped over between steepings. The set is protected by a tea towel folded between each layer, and nestled into a beautiful carrying case in stitched vegan leather with carrying strap that snaps on and off for easy packing. The porcelain itself is highly-vitrified fine porcelain from the masters at Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio, perfect for reflecting all the nuance and aroma from any tea.

This full gongfu tea set features a gaiwan, pitcher, and six cups all showing off the implements of an ancient scholar’s studio, complete with tea tools and natural objects of contemplation. The scenes are a reminder of tea culture’s long–spanning history and the roots of modern gongfu. The red-orange accents show off the lovely bright-white porcelain, perfect for amplifying the color and aromatics of your tea.

This full set is a celebration of Pengyuan Qinghua studio’s incredible work with hand painting and fine thin porcelain, including a gaiwan, a pitcher and two cups. The striking motif features a hand-painted motif of delicate bamboo swaying in the wind. Pengyuan Qinghua Studio turns all of their own ultra-thin porcelain, vitrified at an extremely high firing temperature for teaware fine enough to amplify tea’s aromatics and allow light to pass through, giving each piece a glowing quality. The red brushwork is an elegant contrast to the white, and an evocative reference to the bamboo groves that grow alongside tea in the mountains of Fujian.

This full set is a celebration of Pengyuan Qinghua studio’s incredible work with hand painting and fine thin porcelain, including a gaiwan, a pitcher and two cups. Classical Chinese porcelain motifs were all about the deep blue brushwork, with early blue glaze being the best color to survive the intense heat of the kiln. This set evokes that classical style with an elegant hand-painted pomegranate tree. Pengyuan Qinghua Studio turns all of their own ultra-thin porcelain, vitrified at an extremely high firing temperature for teaware fine enough to amplify tea’s aromatics and allow light to pass through, giving each piece a glowing quality. Striking detail in the brushwork around the branches is matched with a beautiful dream-like quality in the blue of the fruit itself, showing off the artist’s skill.

Our friends at the Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio in Dehua have produced this stunning set of gilded porcelain tea ware with a beautiful blue green tint to the porcelain, highlighted by bands of gold. This elegant collection includes everything you need to brew fine tea- a gaiwan, two cups, a strainer and a pitcher. The whole set is crafted from highly vitrified non-reactive porcelain to give your teas a clear, focused and true aroma and flavor.

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, or gaiwan. The compact footprint is perfect for desk-side modern gongfu. This boat is paired with everything you need to brew fine tea at home, or to kickstart friends and family in gongfu tea brewing including a white porcelain gaiwan that is fully non-reactive for true, clean flavor and aroma. The cups are high fired porcelain from Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio in Dehua. The tempered glass pitcher and classic strainer make it easy to brew for a group.

Everything you need to get the most out of your fine teas using gongfu brewing style. A versatile porcelain gaiwan helps you do lots of steepings with the same leaf to see how a tea’s flavor unfolds, a glass pitcher and strainer are there to help you fill up everyone’s cups with each infusion, a tea board catches any drips and rinse steepings along the way, and finally, two porcelain tasting cups that show off a tea’s true aroma. Get started with gongfu and see your tea in a totally new way!

This full tea set includes a gaiwan, pitcher, and two cups. The Pine Bough style draws on the Song Dynasty tradition of objects of scholarly contemplation with a subtle gnarled piece of wood in relief on the cups and gaiwan, a nod to the curious natural objects that were inspirational in the Song Dynasty studio. It is no small feat to achieve porcelain this thin while still featuring a relief that glows translucent in the light, accented with a fully hand-painted pine bough motif, fluid and expressive against the white porcelain. Each piece is fully vitrified and non-reactive, meaning they fully amplify the tea’s natural aromatics, making the set perfect for serious and contemplative tasting.

This impressive gaiwan and pitcher set features a peaceful hand-painted scene highlighting a secret tea pavilion in the mountains. Pengyuan Qinghua Studio turns all of their own ultra-thin porcelain, vitrified at an extremely high firing temperature for teaware fine enough to amplify tea’s aromatics and allow light to pass through, giving each piece a glowing quality. The brushwork on this piece shows off the artist's skill at both detail in the pavilion itself, and gestural washes and abstraction on the rock face and cherry blossoms. These matching pieces are fully vitrified and non-reactive, meaning they fully amplify the tea’s natural aromatics, making it perfect for serious tasting. This set is paired with two purple porcelain teacups high-fired in Longquan to help amplify your tea's aromatics, plus matching saucers for each cup.

This thin and lustrous porcleain full gongfu tea set is hand painted in a classic blue and white landscape motif by Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio in De Hua, one of China's ancient porcelain capitols. A pattern as detailed as this landscape takes years of practice, a good eye and a steady hand. This set includes a gaiwan, pitcher, strainer and two tea cups. Their high-fired, highly-vitrified porcelain is completely non-reactive and perfect to show off a true sense of any tea. 

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.

A detailed and expressive baby dragon swirls in the clouds, adorning each piece in this tea set.  Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio shows off their skill with spiraling clouds, tiny dragon scales, and red highlights to complete the dragon motif. This solo tea set includes a small gongfu tea pot and a large tea cup. The high-fired porcelain itself is carefully hand assembled and detailed after forming each shape on a lathe. The vitrified porcelain is perfect for any tea, and brews up a very true aromatic profile. Pair with your favorite pitcher, or pour directly from the small pot into your cup.

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. The cups are high fired porcelain from Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio in Dehua. The tempered glass pitcher and classic strainer make it easy to brew for a group. A beautiful draining tea board from Xiangfu Workshop is included with this set so you can pour your rinse or any extra tea right over the board and watch it drain below. The board comes with a tray to hold water, and a tube to drain to a bucket if you prefer.

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.

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 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 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.

Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio takes their cat theme seriously, depicting each cat with the same level of detail and gestural beauty that they would put into a traditional landscape or floral motif; the set taken together shows cats in various stages of play with a wreath of flowers, from wearing them proudly, to running around with them, to lying in a pile of petals by the end of playtime. The set comes with an oversized saucer that doubles as a presentation plate between gongfu sessions, a beautiful gaiwan, a hexagonal glass pitcher, four guest cups and one larger host cup that works great for solo brewing too. The whole set is packaged in a fancy gift box for safe transit and great presentation.

We love modern gongfu. It’s versatility, the way it can incorporate into the everyday, the way pieces can be swapped out so easily depending on the tea, the weather and the mood. That’s why we wanted to finally offer a full modern gongfu set that shows off the ideals of this new style. What is modern gongfu? Simply, it’s tea without the draining board. Instead of a board, a runner is used and stands are put out for cups, pitchers and gaiwans. Without a board, the set is free to expand to accommodate more people, or fold up and be put away in tight spaces. Pieces can be swapped out to fit any occasion. This set includes a runner, a full set of tea tools, a Milk White Gaiwan, two aroma cup sets, a stunning glass pitcher, a tea boat for the gaiwan and a pitcher stand. The tea boat can double as a tea bowl for any rinse or extra brew. Aroma cups can be used with the tall cup to appreciate the aromatics of your tea, or you can pour directly into the tea bowl cups. All together- this set is our invitation to get into gongfu and enjoy your tea to the fullest.

This striking glass cup ripples like glacial ice in the sun, amplifying light and showing off the color of your tea as you sip. Tempered for boiling water and elegantly gilded, this is a stunning addition to any gongfu setup.

Xiangfu’s Ge Song Studio in Longquan fires lustrous, deep and beautifully crackled celadon. This cup is a unique example of their work with a perfect capacity for solo brewing to hold most of a full teapot or gaiwan steeping. The geometric facets appear octagonal at first, but there are in fact nine sides, giving this piece a more dynamic balance.

Xiangfu Workshop’s line of Ge Song Celadon is fired using traditional techniques in Longquan, the birthplace of Celadon pottery. The light crackling grows over a lifetime of use, slowly filling in darker with tea for a beautiful effect. The traditional lustrous green of this celadon provides a great backdrop for green teas or an exciting contrast for darker teas. Set of two cups

This convenient Xiang Fu ( 祥福 / Stone Leaf Tea Set ) travel mug combines glass, natural bamboo and porcelain for a beautiful self-contained brewing solution for at home and on the go. Bamboo protects you from the heat while the glass helps show off the beautiful color of your tea, while a rubber ring insulates and protects your tables from heat. Everything comes apart for easy cleaning, then packs back up into the sturdy travel case.

This cup's moonlight white glazing is hard to fully capture or describe. In the light, the white has a depth and luster of crystalline patterns, like water refracting light under a still surface. The tall flared shape is perfect for appreciating the aroma of teas like Tieguanyin or Wuyi oolong, or appreciating the delicate color of Dragonwell or white tea.

This is Xiangfu’s absolute smallest gongfu travel kit. This simple kit includes a gaiwan with removable strainer and three cups that stack and nest in the gaiwan, all bundled together in a padded green drawstring bag. It’s everything you need to enjoy your favorite tea with the smallest footprint possible, and a great intro to gongfu-style brewing for anyone looking to dive in and get the most out of their tea.

Xiangfu delivers full-on gongfu brewing in the smallest most portable form factor with this new set. Three stylish blue and white porcelain cups nest inside a glass and bamboo brewer with a matching removable porcelain strainer and top. You can control brew time by removing the strainer, and pour from the pitcher into each cup for multi-infusion gongfu. When you are done, pack it up in the durable carbon-fiber case and take it on the go.

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 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 fully hand made Jingdezhen porcelain cup and saucer is hand painted in traditional blue and white (qing hua) with red accent. Bats - representing good fortune or (in Buddhism) the five blessings - fly above beautifully rendered crashing waves on both the cup and saucer. The porcelain is fine and lustrous, thin and translucent in the light. Each color in this piece is fired separately at different temperature; to complete the the form and painting of a fully hand made piece like this, it requires the work of many different specialized craftspeople over several days.

This stunning, vibrant tea set includes a gaiwan and four tasting cups, all meticulously hand-thrown, carefully air-dried, carved down exquisitely thin, high-fired, glazed and re-fired for an exquisite, fully non-reactive tea set ready for professional tasting. The whole set comes in a travel case so you can take your gallery-level Jingdezhen porcelain on the go!

This extraordinarily-limited set is inspired by the Song Dynasty scholar’s garden pavilion studio: a contemplative space away from the bustle of the house to write poetry, practice calligraphy, and critically, drink tea. Each piece was chosen for their exquisite but unassuming nature - a set of tea ware that puts the tea first, but if you look at and handle each cup, the teapot or the board itself, their beauty shines through. The pot is a special kind of Ru - a tricky, difficult to pull off white glaze. This is not your classic porcelain. Ru has a softness and inner glow that comes through in the light. It feels completely different, but in a subtle and understated way. The cups are fully hand made pieces, thrown by hand and painted by hand to a staggering level of fine detail. The thinness of these pieces piece and what the artists were able to achieve is unreal. Jingdezhen porcelain is on another level. It is no wonder it is the material of choice for professional tasters since the firing temperature means a more perfect vitrification and better reflection of aromatics. Finally, the tea board itself is made with lovely yew wood and a striking aromatic resin. This board smells like a forest when it is hot or covered in tea, bringing a piece of the outdoors to your daily brew. All together, this is a set for truly enjoying every sip.

Jingdezhen is the ultimate in professional-level tea tasting. This high-fired porcelain is unparalleled, and used at the competition level for the way it shows a tea's truest “highest resolution” flavor, texture and aroma. We are lucky to work with the talented Yong Jing Tang Workshop, where they hand-throw every Jingdezhen piece for perfect precision and hand paint each beautiful adornment. The result is a level of teaware that is hard to even capture in photos, pieces that glow in the light and are a true pleasure to hold and sip from. This set features a hand painted gaiwan, two hand-painted cups and a hand-painted pitcher for an elegant tea set ready to show off the finest teas.

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.

This creamy blue-green Ru glaze cup celebrates the tradition of bringing new life to old pieces through gold repair work. As ancient pieces are excavated, instead of preserving cracked shards, modern collectors are repairing these relics with gold so that they can be used in tea brewing the way the original artist intended. This gold work has spurred the growth of a new craft, adding adornment to the repairs- a modern dialog with ancient pieces. This Ru pot draws on the goldwork tradition with a golden motif of its own, a contrast to the lightly-crackled Ru glaze itself.

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 set comes with a gaiwan, a pitcher and strainer, all a pleasure to hold and a beautiful contrast to the color of tea, especially as they crackle over time. For cups, we’ve paired our favorite fine Longquan Porcelain aroma cup sets so that you can appreciate the aroma of your tea with every brew session, in a stunning contrasting yellow.

This personal brew mug is all about the details- a strikingly generous strainer fine enough to keep small leaves out of your mug but well-designed enough to allow water to drain through quickly and efficiently. The handle is a pleasure to hold with its decorative flare that makes for an easier grip, while the lid flips over to act as a stable saucer for your strainer between steepings. The weight and thinness of the cup itself makes it easy to sip tea and get the most out of its aromatics. The glazing and pottery work itself is the fine work of the Jie Feng Studio, pioneers in reviving old-school Song Dynasty style Ru. While Ru has gained immense popularity for its soft creamy look over the centuries, modern Ru usually falls short of its Song Dynasty predecessors with a flat-looking glaze and lack of luster. The unique high-firing process and meticulous glazing work at Jie Feng Studio yields remarkably lustrous Ru with a crystalline depth and subtle crackling.

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. While Ru has gained immense popularity for its soft creamy look over the centuries, modern Ru usually falls short of its Song Dynasty predecessors with a flat-looking glaze and lack of luster. The unique high-firing process and meticulous glazing work at Jie Feng Studio yields remarkably lustrous Ru with a crystalline depth and subtle crackling. This scalloped cup shows off the textural difference between glazed and unglazed along the ridges of the cup. The size makes it perfect for solo gongfu sessions since it can hold nearly a full pour from a small gaiwan or yixing teapot.

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. While Ru has gained immense popularity for its soft creamy look over the centuries, modern Ru usually falls short of its Song Dynasty predecessors with a flat-looking glaze and lack of luster. The unique high-firing process and meticulous glazing work at Jie Feng Studio yields remarkably lustrous Ru with a crystalline depth and subtle crackling. This scalloped cup shows off the textural difference between glazed and unglazed along the ridges of the cup. The size makes it perfect for solo gongfu sessions since it can hold nearly a full pour from a small gaiwan or yixing teapot.

Jie Feng Studio creates exquisitely soft Ru glaze pottery, full of depth and light crazing. This clever brew mug packs into a protective travel case to bring on trips, take to work, or carry outside to the park. The mug includes a lid and strainer so the tea stays hot while steeping and so that the strainer has a neat place to rest between infusions. The strainer holes are incorporated into the form to avoid the need for a plastic strainer mesh. The gorgeous creamy blue grows deeper over time, contrasting against the crackling as the piece absorbs tea for a beautiful luster. This particularly fine Ru shows off a crystalline depth and subtlety that sets it truly apart.

The curved, scalloped Ruyi pattern serves as the inspiration for this elegant Ru glaze cup by Feng Zi Studio, a collaboration between master Lin Defeng and master Guo Zhihao, both award-winning craftsmen with long exhibition histories who decided to get together and start a kiln in Taiwan to faithfully revive the Song Dynasty Ru ware culture. Ru was first treasured for its creamy rich blues that evoked the sky, and Feng Zi studio delivers with glazes that feel as deep as they are rich, as smooth as they are lustrous under the surface. This cup was wood-fired at over 1100 degrees celsius to achieve its incredible glaze. The result is a pleasure to hold and a beautiful contrast against the brewed tea to elevate gongfu ceremony.

This gorgeous boxed set of two Ru glaze cups makes for the perfect tea time. These cups are created by Feng Zi Studio, a collaboration between master Lin Defeng and master Guo Zhihao, both award-winning craftsmen with long exhibition histories who decided to get together and start a kiln in Taiwan to faithfully revive the Song Dynasty Ru ware culture. Ru was first treasured for its creamy rich blues that evoked the sky, and Feng Zi studio delivers with glazes that feel as deep as they are rich, as smooth as they are lustrous under the surface. Each cup is wood-fired at over 1100 degrees celsius to achieve the beautiful glaze. The result is a pleasure to hold and a beautiful contrast against the brewed tea to elevate gongfu ceremony.

Lacquer arts in China date back over three thousand years to the Shang Dynasty. This spectacular piece draws on ancient tradition, combining lacquer with classic Ru Kiln ceramics. While the oldest lacquer wares are made from turned and carved wood, dipped in countless layers of resin, the problem in bringing this ancient craft into tea culture is lacquer’s dislike of boiling water. Feng Zi Studio takes up the challenge, by making the cup material their stunning Ru, leaving the inside lacquer-free so that the cup can withstand generations of use. The lacquer layer is built up over many applications, creating a soft smooth feeling, and a beautiful contrasting color to the blue Ru glaze. Shell inlay has always been a lacquer classic, but Fengzi takes tradition and makes it dreamy, swirling and perfectly modern. The cup shape itself is wide and bowl-like to show off your tea.

Lacquer arts in China date back over three thousand years to the Shang Dynasty. This spectacular piece draws on ancient tradition, combining lacquer with classic Ru Kiln ceramics. While the oldest lacquer wares are made from turned and carved wood, dipped in countless layers of resin, the problem in bringing this ancient craft into tea culture is lacquer’s dislike of boiling water. Feng Zi Studio takes up the challenge, by making the cup material their stunning Ru, leaving the inside lacquer-free so that the cup can withstand generations of use. The lacquer layer is built up over many applications, creating a soft smooth feeling, and a beautiful contrasting color to the blue Ru glaze. Shell inlay has always been a lacquer classic, but Fengzi takes tradition and makes it dreamy, swirling and perfectly modern. The cup is tall and modeled after a flower bud opening in early spring. The tall shape keeps your tea warmer longer and directs and concentrates the aroma of anything you brew.

This extraordinarily-limited set is inspired by the Song Dynasty scholar’s garden pavilion studio: a contemplative space away from the bustle of the house to write poetry, practice calligraphy, and critically, drink tea. Each piece was chosen for their exquisite but unassuming nature - a set of tea ware that puts the tea first, but if you look at and handle each cup, the teapot or the board itself, their beauty shines through. The pot is a special kind of Ru - a tricky, difficult to pull off white glaze. This is not your classic porcelain. Ru has a softness and inner glow that comes through in the light. It feels completely different, but in a subtle and understated way. The cups are fully hand made pieces, thrown by hand and painted by hand to a staggering level of fine detail. The thinness of these pieces piece and what the artists were able to achieve is unreal. Jingdezhen porcelain is on another level. It is no wonder it is the material of choice for professional tasters since the firing temperature means a more perfect vitrification and better reflection of aromatics. Finally, the tea board itself is made with lovely yew wood and a striking aromatic resin. This board smells like a forest when it is hot or covered in tea, bringing a piece of the outdoors to your daily brew. All together, this is a set for truly enjoying every sip.

Lacquer arts in China date back over three thousand years to the Shang Dynasty. This spectacular piece draws on ancient tradition, combining lacquer with classic Ru Kiln ceramics. While the oldest lacquer wares are made from turned and carved wood, dipped in countless layers of resin, the problem in bringing this ancient craft into tea culture is lacquer’s dislike of boiling water. Feng Zi Studio takes up the challenge, by making the cup material their stunning Ru, leaving the inside lacquer-free so that the cup can withstand generations of use. The lacquer layer is built up over many applications, creating a soft smooth feeling, and a beautiful contrasting color to the blue Ru glaze. Shell inlay has always been a lacquer classic, but Fengzi takes tradition and makes it dreamy, swirling and perfectly modern. The cup is tall and modeled after a flower bud opening in early spring. The tall shape keeps your tea warmer longer and directs and concentrates the aroma of anything you brew.

Lacquer arts in China date back over three thousand years to the Shang Dynasty. This spectacular piece draws on ancient tradition, combining lacquer with classic Ru Kiln ceramics. While the oldest lacquer wares are made from turned and carved wood, dipped in countless layers of resin, the problem in bringing this ancient craft into tea culture is lacquer’s dislike of boiling water. Feng Zi Studio takes up the challenge, by making the cup material their stunning Ru, leaving the inside lacquer-free so that the cup can withstand generations of use. The lacquer layer is built up over many applications, creating a soft smooth feeling, and a beautiful contrasting color to the blue Ru glaze. Shell inlay has always been a lacquer classic, but Fengzi takes tradition and makes it dreamy, swirling and perfectly modern. The cup shape itself is wide and generous with a modern form that complements the lacquer-work.

Lacquer arts in China date back over three thousand years to the Shang Dynasty. This spectacular piece draws on ancient tradition, combining lacquer with classic Ru Kiln ceramics. While the oldest lacquer wares are made from turned and carved wood, dipped in countless layers of resin, the problem in bringing this ancient craft into tea culture is lacquer’s dislike of boiling water. Feng Zi Studio takes up the challenge, by making the cup material their stunning Ru, leaving the inside lacquer-free so that the cup can withstand generations of use. The lacquer layer is built up over many applications, creating a soft smooth feeling, and a beautiful contrasting color to the blue Ru glaze. Shell inlay has always been a lacquer classic, but Fengzi takes tradition and makes it dreamy, swirling and perfectly modern. The cup shape itself is wide and bowl-like to show off your tea.

Lacquer arts in China date back over three thousand years to the Shang Dynasty. This spectacular piece draws on ancient tradition, combining lacquer with classic Ru Kiln ceramics. While the oldest lacquer wares are made from turned and carved wood, dipped in countless layers of resin, the problem in bringing this ancient craft into tea culture is lacquer’s dislike of boiling water. Feng Zi Studio takes up the challenge, by making the cup material their stunning Ru, leaving the inside lacquer-free so that the cup can withstand generations of use. The lacquer layer is built up over many applications, creating a soft smooth feeling, and a beautiful contrasting color to the blue Ru glaze. The brilliant maple leaf imprints against deep swirling greens is a nod to the Song Dynasty Jizhou leaf imprint ceramics tradition. The tall cup is perfect for concentrating the aromatic intensity of your tea as you sip.

Lacquer arts in China date back over three thousand years to the Shang Dynasty. This spectacular piece draws on ancient tradition, combining lacquer with classic Ru Kiln ceramics. While the oldest lacquer wares are made from turned and carved wood, dipped in countless layers of resin, the problem in bringing this ancient craft into tea culture is lacquer’s dislike of boiling water. Feng Zi Studio takes up the challenge, by making the cup material their stunning Ru, leaving the inside lacquer-free so that the cup can withstand generations of use. The lacquer layer is built up over many applications, creating a soft smooth feeling, and a beautiful contrasting color to the blue Ru glaze. The brilliant maple leaf imprints against deep swirling greens is a nod to the Song Dynasty Jizhou leaf imprint ceramics tradition. The cup shape is perfect for keeping your tea warm, with a flared rim for easy sipping.

Lacquer arts in China date back over three thousand years to the Shang Dynasty. This spectacular piece draws on ancient tradition, combining lacquer with classic Ru Kiln ceramics. While the oldest lacquer wares are made from turned and carved wood, dipped in countless layers of resin, the problem in bringing this ancient craft into tea culture is lacquer’s dislike of boiling water. Feng Zi Studio takes up the challenge, by making the cup material their stunning Ru, leaving the inside lacquer-free so that the cup can withstand generations of use. The lacquer layer is built up over many applications, creating a soft smooth feeling, and a beautiful contrasting color to the blue Ru glaze.  The cup is tall and modeled after a flower bud opening in early spring. The brilliant maple leaf imprints against deep swirling greens is a nod to the Song Dynasty Jizhou leaf imprint ceramics tradition.  The tall shape keeps your tea warmer longer and directs and concentrates the aroma of anything you brew.

Lacquer arts in China date back over three thousand years to the Shang Dynasty. This spectacular piece draws on ancient tradition, combining lacquer with classic Ru Kiln ceramics. While the oldest lacquer wares are made from turned and carved wood, dipped in countless layers of resin, the problem in bringing this ancient craft into tea culture is lacquer’s dislike of boiling water. Feng Zi Studio takes up the challenge, by making the cup material their stunning Ru, leaving the inside lacquer-free so that the cup can withstand generations of use. The lacquer layer is built up over many applications, creating a soft smooth feeling, and a beautiful contrasting color to the blue Ru glaze.  The brilliant maple leaf imprints against deep swirling greens is a nod to the Song Dynasty Jizhou leaf imprint ceramics tradition.  The cup shape itself is wide and bowl-like to show off your tea.

Lacquer arts in China date back over three thousand years to the Shang Dynasty. This spectacular piece draws on ancient tradition, combining lacquer with classic Ru Kiln ceramics. While the oldest lacquer wares are made from turned and carved wood, dipped in countless layers of resin, the problem in bringing this ancient craft into tea culture is lacquer’s dislike of boiling water. Feng Zi Studio takes up the challenge, by making the cup material their stunning Ru, leaving the inside lacquer-free so that the cup can withstand generations of use. The lacquer layer is built up over many applications, creating a soft smooth feeling, and a beautiful contrasting color to the blue Ru glaze.  The brilliant maple leaf imprints against deep swirling greens is a nod to the Song Dynasty Jizhou leaf imprint ceramics tradition.  The cup shape itself is wide and generous with a modern form that complements the lacquer-work.

Lacquer arts in China date back over three thousand years to the Shang Dynasty. This spectacular piece draws on ancient tradition, combining lacquer with classic Ru Kiln ceramics. While the oldest lacquer wares are made from turned and carved wood, dipped in countless layers of resin, the problem in bringing this ancient craft into tea culture is lacquer’s dislike of boiling water. Feng Zi Studio takes up the challenge, by making the cup material their stunning Ru, leaving the inside lacquer-free so that the cup can withstand generations of use. The lacquer layer is built up over many applications, creating a soft smooth feeling, and a beautiful contrasting color to the blue Ru glaze.  The brilliant maple leaf imprints against deep swirling greens is a nod to the Song Dynasty Jizhou leaf imprint ceramics tradition.  The cup shape itself is wide and bowl-like to show off your tea.

This one-of-a-kind scratch and dent offering is discounted 30% to acknowledge the small blemish in the lacquer. This cup is one of the very last remaining from Feng Zi Studio's lacquer ware collaboration. Note the pictured (fingerprint. While the imperfection does not diminish this cup's beauty, we want to point it out. Lacquer arts in China date back over three thousand years to the Shang Dynasty. This spectacular piece draws on ancient tradition, combining lacquer with classic Ru Kiln ceramics. While the oldest lacquer wares are made from turned and carved wood, dipped in countless layers of resin, the problem in bringing this ancient craft into tea culture is lacquer’s dislike of boiling water. Feng Zi Studio takes up the challenge, by making the cup material their stunning Ru, leaving the inside lacquer-free so that the cup can withstand generations of use. The lacquer layer is built up over many applications, creating a soft smooth feeling, and a beautiful contrasting color to the blue Ru glaze.  The brilliant maple leaf imprints against deep swirling greens is a nod to the Song Dynasty Jizhou leaf imprint ceramics tradition.  The cup shape itself is wide and generous with a modern form that complements the lacquer-work.

This one-of-a-kind scratch and dent offering is discounted 30% to acknowledge the small blemish in the lacquer. This cup is one of the very last remaining from Feng Zi Studio's lacquer ware collaboration. Note the pictured scratch. While the imperfection does not diminish this cup's beauty, we want to point it out. Lacquer arts in China date back over three thousand years to the Shang Dynasty. This spectacular piece draws on ancient tradition, combining lacquer with classic Ru Kiln ceramics. While the oldest lacquer wares are made from turned and carved wood, dipped in countless layers of resin, the problem in bringing this ancient craft into tea culture is lacquer’s dislike of boiling water. Feng Zi Studio takes up the challenge, by making the cup material their stunning Ru, leaving the inside lacquer-free so that the cup can withstand generations of use. The lacquer layer is built up over many applications, creating a soft smooth feeling, and a beautiful contrasting color to the blue Ru glaze.  The brilliant maple leaf imprints against deep swirling greens is a nod to the Song Dynasty Jizhou leaf imprint ceramics tradition.  The cup shape itself is wide and generous with a modern form that complements the lacquer-work.

This one-of-a-kind scratch and dent offering is discounted 30% to acknowledge the small blemish in the lacquer. This cup is one of the very last remaining from Feng Zi Studio's lacquer ware collaboration. Note the pictured blemish. While the imperfection does not diminish this cup's beauty, we want to point it out. Lacquer arts in China date back over three thousand years to the Shang Dynasty. This spectacular piece draws on ancient tradition, combining lacquer with classic Ru Kiln ceramics. While the oldest lacquer wares are made from turned and carved wood, dipped in countless layers of resin, the problem in bringing this ancient craft into tea culture is lacquer’s dislike of boiling water. Feng Zi Studio takes up the challenge, by making the cup material their stunning Ru, leaving the inside lacquer-free so that the cup can withstand generations of use. The lacquer layer is built up over many applications, creating a soft smooth feeling, and a beautiful contrasting color to the blue Ru glaze.  The brilliant maple leaf imprints against deep swirling greens is a nod to the Song Dynasty Jizhou leaf imprint ceramics tradition.  The cup shape itself is wide and generous with a modern form that complements the lacquer-work.

This goblet teacup is inspired by Song Dynasty wine cups, showing off the skill of the workshop and the depth of the celadon glazing in the intricate detail work of the flower motif around the cup. Hand-finished and fired in a traditional Longquan kiln, this celadon is highly vitrified like glass, making it a non-reactive material that helps bring out incredible aromatic depth in your tea.

This beautifully detailed art-deco inspired relief was meticulously crafted to show off the beauty of the celadon glazing and bring a sense of elegance to your tea. Hand-finished and fired in a traditional Longquan kiln, this celadon is highly vitrified like glass, making it a non-reactive material that helps bring out incredible aromatic depth in your tea.

Classic glazing and kiln techniques meet modern form with this celadon brew mug. The light crackling in the glaze will deepen over time, giving the mug a beautiful patina. The strainer comes out and rests on the lid after the tea is brewed, making this the perfect desk-side companion for all day sipping.

This cup's moonlight white glazing is hard to fully capture or describe. In the light, the white has a depth and luster of crystalline patterns, like water refracting light under a still surface. The tall flared shape is perfect for appreciating the aroma of teas like Tieguanyin or Wuyi oolong, or appreciating the delicate color of Dragonwell or white tea.

Xiangfu’s Ge Song Studio in Longquan fires lustrous, deep and beautifully crackled celadon. This cup is a unique example of their work with a perfect capacity for solo brewing to hold most of a full teapot or gaiwan steeping. The geometric facets appear octagonal at first, but there are in fact nine sides, giving this piece a more dynamic balance.

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.

Xiangfu Workshop’s line of Ge Song Celadon is fired using traditional techniques in Longquan, the birthplace of Celadon pottery. The light crackling grows over a lifetime of use, slowly filling in darker with tea for a beautiful effect. The traditional lustrous green of this celadon provides a great backdrop for green teas or an exciting contrast for darker teas. Set of two cups

These spectacular orange mottled gongfu teacups reflect artist Yi Xuan’s research into complex ash-glaze and earthen mineral glaze combination techniques that involve multiple firings and layers to capture the depth and complexity of cai shao wood firing with the nuance and control of electric firing, yielding a delicate crackling almost celadon-like effect. Each piece is entirely handmade, one of only five to come out of the kiln this year! Each of the five pieces has slight natural variation, part of the beauty of truly hand-made work from one of China’s preeminent ceramics research scholars.

Aroma cups are an essential part of old-school gongfu tea - a cup whose sole purpose is to collect, focus, and concentrate the aroma of your tea. Experimental porcelain artist Yi Xuan was fascinated with the idea of firing a small batch of exquisitely thin, hand-thrown aroma cups in her wood kiln to match her stunning tea cups. This first batch came out beautifully! Her unique two step firing involves an electric kiln firing to set the unglazed porcelain, followed by application of a blended ash glaze, and finally, an extensive multi-day wood-firing in her huge kiln, reaching temperatures so high that the cup has to be hand-built from her custom porcelain blend instead of traditional clay. Holding the cup in hand, it feels like holding an ancient piece unearthed after thousands of years with its purple and silver swirling iridescence. Each of these pieces has slight natural variation, part of the beauty of truly hand-made work from one of China’s preeminent ceramics research scholars.

Sitting around the tea table together, Yi Xuan calls these stunning, hand-built pieces her ‘classic porcelain’ with a smile on her face. What she means is that these cups are her only work that gets a traditional white glaze, a nod to her training and discipline as a potter in China’s oldest center of porcelain culture. Of course, this work is nothing like “classic” porcelain, with its subtle coloration that comes from Yi Xuan’s unique wood-firing process, and the celadon-like crackling. The sculptural shapes of each piece are a testament to her insistence to form each cup by hand without a lathe or even a potters wheel- her tribute to ancient craft.  This cup is larger than a mini gongfu cup, done at a scale to show off the color and sculptural quality of the work- perfect for one or two people pouring gongfu. Each of these pieces has slight natural variation, part of the beauty of truly hand-made work from one of China’s preeminent ceramics research scholars.

Experimental Porcelain artist Yi Xuan turns the expectations of exquisite porcelain on their head with this new sculpted tea cup series. While De Hua’s tradition is rooted in precision, this piece is reasserts the craft and humanity behind porcelain art. If you look closely, you can see Yi Xuan's own fingerprints in the sculpted natural shape of the cup. Her unique two step firing involves an electric kiln firing to set the unglazed porcelain, followed by application of a blended ash glaze and finally an extensive multi-day wood-firing in her old-school kiln, reaching temperatures so high that the cup has to be hand-built from her custom porcelain blend instead of traditional clay. Holding the cup in your hand, it feels like holding an ancient piece unearthed after thousands of years. Each of these pieces has slight natural variation, part of the beauty of truly hand-made work from one of China’s preeminent ceramics research scholars.

This stunning iridescent tea cup is entirely hand-thrown by artist Yi Xuan. This piece came out of her kiln with natural swirling iridescence, an artifact of the extreme heat of her multi-day firing process that gets so hot, she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. This tea cup is not glazed - its color comes entirely from iron-oxide elements present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing. This piece incredibly thin and light, a true pleasure to hold in the hand. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact tea bowl pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for unique works that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

This stunning iridescent tea cup is entirely hand-thrown by artist Yi Xuan. This piece came out of her kiln with natural swirling iridescence, an artifact of the extreme heat of her multi-day firing process that gets so hot, she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. This tea cup is not glazed - its color comes entirely from iron-oxide elements present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing. This piece incredibly thin and light, a true pleasure to hold in the hand. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact tea bowl pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for unique works that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

This stunning iridescent tea cup is entirely hand-thrown by artist Yi Xuan. This piece came out of her kiln with natural swirling iridescence, an artifact of the extreme heat of her multi-day firing process that gets so hot, she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. This tea cup is not glazed - its color comes entirely from iron-oxide elements present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing. This piece incredibly thin and light, a true pleasure to hold in the hand. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact tea bowl pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for unique works that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

This stunning iridescent tea cup is entirely hand-thrown by artist Yi Xuan. This piece came out of her kiln with natural swirling iridescence, an artifact of the extreme heat of her multi-day firing process that gets so hot, she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. This tea cup is not glazed - its color comes entirely from iron-oxide elements present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing. This piece incredibly thin and light, a true pleasure to hold in the hand. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact tea bowl pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for unique works that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

This stunning iridescent tea cup is entirely hand-thrown by artist Yi Xuan. This piece came out of her kiln with natural swirling iridescence, an artifact of the extreme heat of her multi-day firing process that gets so hot, she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. This tea cup is not glazed - its color comes entirely from iron-oxide elements present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing. This piece incredibly thin and light, a true pleasure to hold in the hand. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact tea bowl pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for unique works that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

Experimental Porcelain artist Yi Xuan turns the expectations of exquisite porcelain on their head with this new sculpted tea cup series. While De Hua’s tradition is rooted in precision, this piece is reasserts the craft and humanity behind porcelain art. If you look closely, you can see Yi Xuan's own fingerprints in the sculpted natural shape of the cup. Her unique two step firing involves an electric kiln firing to set the unglazed porcelain, followed by application of a blended ash glaze and finally an extensive multi-day wood-firing in her old-school kiln, reaching temperatures so high that the cup has to be hand-built from her custom porcelain blend instead of traditional clay. Holding the cup in your hand, it feels like holding an ancient piece unearthed after thousands of years. Yi Xuan placed her seal on the interior of this cup. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact tea bowl pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

These stunning iridescent tea cups are entirely hand-thrown by artist Yi Xuan and came out of the kiln with natural swirling iridescence, an artifact of the extreme heat of her three day firing process that gets so hot she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. This gaiwan is not glazed- its color comes entirely from iron-oxide dusts present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing, making this piece incredibly thin and light, a true pleasure to hold in the hand.

Artist Yi Xuan took this cup through two full firing processes, first, an electric firing to set the porcelain, then a dip in a hand-blended ash glaze and an extensive multi-day wood-firing in her old-school kiln, reaching temperatures so high that the cup has to be hand-built from her custom porcelain blend instead of traditional clay. The result of this painstaking process is a unique, deep, complex cup that shows off the heat signature of the kiln and the way glazing interacts with unglazed porcelain across multiple firings. Work like this is what puts the Yi Xuan Ceramics Research Institute on the map!

This beautiful tea cup is entirely hand-thrown by artist Yi Xuan and came out of the kiln with natural swirling iridescence, an artifact of the extreme heat of her three day firing process that gets so hot she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. This cup is not glazed - its color comes entirely from iron-oxide dusts present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing, making this piece incredibly thin and light, a true pleasure to hold in the hand.

This beautiful tea cup is entirely hand-thrown by artist Yi Xuan and came out of the kiln with natural swirling iridescence, an artifact of the extreme heat of her three day firing process that gets so hot she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. This cup is not glazed - its color comes entirely from iron-oxide dusts present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing, making this piece incredibly thin and light, a true pleasure to hold in the hand.

This beautiful tea cup is entirely hand-thrown by artist Yi Xuan and came out of the kiln with natural swirling iridescence, an artifact of the extreme heat of her three day firing process that gets so hot she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. This cup is not glazed - its color comes entirely from iron-oxide dusts present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing, making this piece incredibly thin and light, a true pleasure to hold in the hand.

This beautiful tea cup is entirely hand-thrown by artist Yi Xuan and came out of the kiln with natural swirling iridescence, an artifact of the extreme heat of her three day firing process that gets so hot she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. This cup is not glazed - its color comes entirely from iron-oxide dusts present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing, making this piece incredibly thin and light, a true pleasure to hold in the hand.

This beautiful tea cup is entirely hand-thrown by artist Yi Xuan and came out of the kiln with natural swirling iridescence, an artifact of the extreme heat of her three day firing process that gets so hot she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. This cup is not glazed - its color comes entirely from iron-oxide dusts present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing, making this piece incredibly thin and light, a true pleasure to hold in the hand.

This beautiful tea cup is entirely hand-thrown by artist Yi Xuan and came out of the kiln with natural swirling iridescence, an artifact of the extreme heat of her three day firing process that gets so hot she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. This cup is not glazed - its color comes entirely from iron-oxide dusts present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing, making this piece incredibly thin and light, a true pleasure to hold in the hand. This cup was shaped with higher tall sides to direct and concentrate the aromatics of classic Wuyi Oolongs or Tieguanyin.

These stunning green, glassy cups represent an entirely new body of work for experimental porcelain artist Yi Xuan. While Yi Xuan has been focused deeply on the effect of ash glaze and iron oxides in the kiln for the past year, these “Dragon Scale” pieces reach towards celadon craft and glazing technique. She applies this perspective to the higher heat, higher stakes porcelain firing process instead of traditional stoneware, and with a “cao mu hui” or ash-based glazing.. Her work hand-sculpting each piece makes them fully unique - with mottling, depth, texture and even flashes of silver hidden in the glazing work. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual cup finds a new home, it is gone.

These stunning green, glassy cups represent an entirely new body of work for experimental porcelain artist Yi Xuan. While Yi Xuan has been focused deeply on the effect of ash glaze and iron oxides in the kiln for the past year, these “Dragon Scale” pieces reach towards celadon craft and glazing technique. She applies this perspective to the higher heat, higher stakes porcelain firing process instead of traditional stoneware, and with a “cao mu hui” or ash-based glazing.. Her work hand-sculpting each piece makes them fully unique - with mottling, depth, texture and even flashes of silver hidden in the glazing work. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual cup finds a new home, it is gone.

These stunning green, glassy cups represent an entirely new body of work for experimental porcelain artist Yi Xuan. While Yi Xuan has been focused deeply on the effect of ash glaze and iron oxides in the kiln for the past year, these “Dragon Scale” pieces reach towards celadon craft and glazing technique. She applies this perspective to the higher heat, higher stakes porcelain firing process instead of traditional stoneware, and with a “cao mu hui” or ash-based glazing.. Her work hand-sculpting each piece makes them fully unique - with mottling, depth, texture and even flashes of silver hidden in the glazing work. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual cup finds a new home, it is gone.

With her unique soda glaze, artist Yi Xuan unites the organic and spontaneous nature of her wood kiln with the pristine, immaculate smoothness for which Dehua porcelain is so famous. The rich cream colors that on this piece reflect the way each wood-fired piece from Yi Xuan is truly one of a kind, but in a different way than her iridescent ash glaze work. This stunningly thin and light tea bowl is modeled on the Song Dynasty wine goblet, a form used extensively in Jian Zhan firings. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact cup pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

Experimental Porcelain artist Yi Xuan actually took a six month position part time at a high-end coffee shop to immerse herself in espresso culture with the goal of better understanding the way other beverages can intersect with porcelain art. This “residency” of sorts inspired her to want to take on the challenge of an espresso style cup complete with stunningly-thin handle. The entire cup was delicately hand-sculpted in fine porcelain. It took many firings to get a successful piece out of Yi Xuan’s extreme high-fire high temp wood kiln. The intense heat usually cracks and shatters pieces as thin and fine as this, especially with a long handle. This cup is a triumph of Yi Xuan’s kiln and a testament to her skill and adaptability. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact cup pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

Experimental Porcelain artist Yi Xuan actually took a six month position part time at a high-end coffee shop to immerse herself in espresso culture with the goal of better understanding the way other beverages can intersect with porcelain art. This “residency” of sorts inspired her to want to take on the challenge of an espresso style cup complete with stunningly-thin handle. The entire cup was delicately hand-sculpted in fine porcelain. It took many firings to get a successful piece out of Yi Xuan’s extreme high-fire high temp wood kiln. The intense heat usually cracks and shatters pieces as thin and fine as this, especially with a long handle. This cup is a triumph of Yi Xuan’s kiln and a testament to her skill and adaptability. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact cup pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

Experimental Porcelain artist Yi Xuan actually took a six month position part time at a high-end coffee shop to immerse herself in espresso culture with the goal of better understanding the way other beverages can intersect with porcelain art. This “residency” of sorts inspired her to want to take on the challenge of an espresso style cup complete with stunningly-thin handle. The entire cup was delicately hand-sculpted in fine porcelain. It took many firings to get a successful piece out of Yi Xuan’s extreme high-fire high temp wood kiln. The intense heat usually cracks and shatters pieces as thin and fine as this, especially with a long handle. This cup is a triumph of Yi Xuan’s kiln and a testament to her skill and adaptability. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact cup pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

Experimental Porcelain artist Yi Xuan actually took a six month position part time at a high-end coffee shop to immerse herself in espresso culture with the goal of better understanding the way other beverages can intersect with porcelain art. This “residency” of sorts inspired her to want to take on the challenge of an espresso style cup complete with stunningly-thin handle. The entire cup was delicately hand-sculpted in fine porcelain. It took many firings to get a successful piece out of Yi Xuan’s extreme high-fire high temp wood kiln. The intense heat usually cracks and shatters pieces as thin and fine as this, especially with a long handle. This cup is a triumph of Yi Xuan’s kiln and a testament to her skill and adaptability. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact cup pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

This hand-built piece by artist Yi Xuan looks like it was hewn from a solid piece of stone, the way she shaped this by hand to preserve a solid anchoring feeling accentuated by her unique two step firing that involves an electric kiln firing to set the unglazed porcelain, followed by application of a blended ash glaze and finally an extensive multi-day wood-firing in her old-school kiln, reaching temperatures so high that the cup has to be hand-built from her custom porcelain blend instead of traditional clay. Holding the cup in hand, it feels like holding an ancient piece unearthed after thousands of years.

This hand-built spectacular moonlight white tea cup reflects artist Yi Xuan’s research into complex ash-glazing techniques that involve multiple firings and layers of glaze to capture the depth and complexity of cai shao wood firing with the nuance and control of electric firing, yielding a delicate crackling almost celadon-like effect. Holding the cup in hand, it feels like holding an ancient piece unearthed after thousands of years. Yi Xuan stamped this cup with her seal in the middle of the base for a beautiful contrast where the character "玄" fills in.

This hand-built piece by artist Yi Xuan looks like it was hewn from a solid piece of stone, the way she shaped this by hand to preserve a solid anchoring feeling accentuated by her unique two step firing that involves an electric kiln firing to set the unglazed porcelain, followed by application of a blended ash glaze and finally an extensive multi-day wood-firing in her old-school kiln, reaching temperatures so high that the cup has to be hand-built from her custom porcelain blend instead of traditional clay. Holding the cup in hand, it feels like holding an ancient piece unearthed after thousands of years.

This hand-built piece by artist Yi Xuan looks like it was hewn from a solid piece of stone, the way she shaped this by hand to preserve a solid anchoring feeling accentuated by her unique two step firing that involves an electric kiln firing to set the unglazed porcelain, followed by application of a blended ash glaze and finally an extensive multi-day wood-firing in her old-school kiln, reaching temperatures so high that the cup has to be hand-built from her custom porcelain blend instead of traditional clay. Holding the cup in hand, it feels like holding an ancient piece unearthed after thousands of years.

This hand-built piece by artist Yi Xuan looks like it was hewn from a solid piece of stone, the way she shaped this by hand to preserve a solid anchoring feeling accentuated by her unique two step firing that involves an electric kiln firing to set the unglazed porcelain, followed by application of a blended ash glaze and finally an extensive multi-day wood-firing in her old-school kiln, reaching temperatures so high that the cup has to be hand-built from her custom porcelain blend instead of traditional clay. Holding the cup in hand, it feels like holding an ancient piece unearthed after thousands of years.

Museum-level, monumental, dramatic, and fully one-of-a-kind, this is artist Yi Xuan’s tribute to the old-school Song Dynasty matcha bowl. Big enough to hold a full gaiwan or yixing teapot infusion, this is the ideal solo gongfu vessel- reflecting tea’s aromatics like the fine high-fired porcelain it is, but with deep sculptural beauty that elevates the tasting experience. The way she hand-sculpted this cup makes it look rough-hewn, like it was excavated from an ancient Song Dynasty kiln site, but with a shimmering swirling iridescence- an artifact of the extreme heat of her three day firing process that gets so hot she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. This gaiwan is not glazed- its color comes entirely from iron-oxide dusts present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact tea bowl pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

Museum-level, monumental, dramatic, and fully one-of-a-kind, this is artist Yi Xuan’s tribute to the old-school Song Dynasty matcha bowl. Big enough to hold a full gaiwan or yixing teapot infusion, this is the ideal solo gongfu vessel- reflecting tea’s aromatics like the fine high-fired porcelain it is, but with deep sculptural beauty that elevates the tasting experience. The way she hand-sculpted this cup makes it look rough-hewn, like it was excavated from an ancient Song Dynasty kiln site, but with a shimmering swirling iridescence- an artifact of the extreme heat of her three day firing process that gets so hot she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. This gaiwan is not glazed- its color comes entirely from iron-oxide dusts present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact tea bowl pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

Museum-level, monumental, dramatic, and fully one-of-a-kind, this is artist Yi Xuan’s tribute to the old-school Song Dynasty matcha bowl. Big enough to hold a full gaiwan or yixing teapot infusion, this is the ideal solo gongfu vessel - reflecting tea’s aromatics like the fine high-fired porcelain it is, but with deep sculptural beauty that elevates the tasting experience. The way she hand-sculpted this cup makes it look rough-hewn, like it was excavated from an ancient Song Dynasty kiln site. Sitting around the tea table together, Yi Xuan calls this style her ‘classic porcelain’ with a smile on her face. What she means is that these cups are her only work that get a traditional white glaze, a nod to her training and discipline as a potter in China’s oldest center of porcelain culture. Of course, this work is nothing like “classic” porcelain, with its subtle coloration that comes from Yi Xuan’s unique wood-firing process, and the celadon-like crazing. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact tea bowl pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

Museum-level, monumental, dramatic, and fully one-of-a-kind, this is artist Yi Xuan’s tribute to the old-school Song Dynasty matcha bowl. Big enough to hold a full gaiwan or yixing teapot infusion, this is the ideal solo gongfu vessel - reflecting tea’s aromatics like the fine high-fired porcelain it is, but with deep sculptural beauty that elevates the tasting experience. The way she hand-sculpted this cup makes it look rough-hewn, like it was excavated from an ancient Song Dynasty kiln site. Sitting around the tea table together, Yi Xuan calls this style her ‘classic porcelain’ with a smile on her face. What she means is that these cups are her only work that get a traditional white glaze, a nod to her training and discipline as a potter in China’s oldest center of porcelain culture. Of course, this work is nothing like “classic” porcelain, with its subtle coloration that comes from Yi Xuan’s unique wood-firing process, and the celadon-like crazing. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact tea bowl pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

Museum-level, monumental, dramatic, and fully one-of-a-kind, this is artist Yi Xuan’s tribute to the old-school Song Dynasty matcha bowl. Big enough to hold a full gaiwan or yixing teapot infusion, this is the ideal solo gongfu vessel- reflecting tea’s aromatics like the fine high-fired porcelain it is, but with deep sculptural beauty that elevates the tasting experience. The way she hand-sculpted this cup makes it look rough-hewn, like it was excavated from an ancient Song Dynasty kiln site, but with a shimmering swirling iridescence- an artifact of the extreme heat of her three day firing process that gets so hot she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. This gaiwan is not glazed- its color comes entirely from iron-oxide dusts present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact tea bowl pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

Museum-level, monumental, dramatic, and fully one-of-a-kind, this is artist Yi Xuan’s tribute to the old-school Song Dynasty matcha bowl. Big enough to hold a full gaiwan or yixing teapot infusion, this is the ideal solo gongfu vessel - reflecting tea’s aromatics like the fine high-fired porcelain it is, but with deep sculptural beauty that elevates the tasting experience. The way she hand-sculpted this cup makes it look rough-hewn, like it was excavated from an ancient Song Dynasty kiln site. Sitting around the tea table together, Yi Xuan calls this style her ‘classic porcelain’ with a smile on her face. What she means is that these cups are her only work that get a traditional white glaze, a nod to her training and discipline as a potter in China’s oldest center of porcelain culture. Of course, this work is nothing like “classic” porcelain, with its subtle coloration that comes from Yi Xuan’s unique wood-firing process, and the celadon-like crazing. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact tea bowl pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

Museum-level, monumental, dramatic, and fully one-of-a-kind, this is artist Yi Xuan’s tribute to the old-school Song Dynasty matcha bowl. Big enough to hold a full gaiwan or yixing teapot infusion, this is the ideal solo gongfu vessel - reflecting tea’s aromatics like the fine high-fired porcelain it is, but with deep sculptural beauty that elevates the tasting experience. The way she hand-sculpted this cup makes it look rough-hewn, like it was excavated from an ancient Song Dynasty kiln site. Sitting around the tea table together, Yi Xuan calls this style her ‘classic porcelain’ with a smile on her face. What she means is that these cups are her only work that get a traditional white glaze, a nod to her training and discipline as a potter in China’s oldest center of porcelain culture. Of course, this work is nothing like “classic” porcelain, with its subtle coloration that comes from Yi Xuan’s unique wood-firing process, and the celadon-like crazing. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact tea bowl pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

Museum-level, monumental, dramatic, and fully one-of-a-kind, this is artist Yi Xuan’s tribute to the old-school Song Dynasty matcha bowl. Big enough to hold a full gaiwan or yixing teapot infusion, this is the ideal solo gongfu vessel - reflecting tea’s aromatics like the fine high-fired porcelain it is, but with deep sculptural beauty that elevates the tasting experience. The way she hand-sculpted this cup makes it look rough-hewn, like it was excavated from an ancient Song Dynasty kiln site. Sitting around the tea table together, Yi Xuan calls this style her ‘classic porcelain’ with a smile on her face. What she means is that these cups are her only work that get a traditional white glaze, a nod to her training and discipline as a potter in China’s oldest center of porcelain culture. Of course, this work is nothing like “classic” porcelain, with its subtle coloration that comes from Yi Xuan’s unique wood-firing process, and the celadon-like crazing. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact tea bowl pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

Museum-level, monumental, dramatic, and fully one-of-a-kind, this is artist Yi Xuan’s tribute to the old-school Song Dynasty matcha bowl. Big enough to hold a full gaiwan or yixing teapot infusion, this is the ideal solo gongfu vessel - reflecting tea’s aromatics like the fine high-fired porcelain it is, but with deep sculptural beauty that elevates the tasting experience. The way she hand-sculpted this cup makes it look rough-hewn, like it was excavated from an ancient Song Dynasty kiln site. Sitting around the tea table together, Yi Xuan calls this style her ‘classic porcelain’ with a smile on her face. What she means is that these cups are her only work that get a traditional white glaze, a nod to her training and discipline as a potter in China’s oldest center of porcelain culture. Of course, this work is nothing like “classic” porcelain, with its subtle coloration that comes from Yi Xuan’s unique wood-firing process, and the celadon-like crazing. This truly one-of-a-kind piece is the exact tea bowl pictured. Yi Xuan’s process and her kiln make for stunningly unique pieces that can never turn out the same again. Once this individual piece finds a new home, it is gone.

Artist Yi Xuan has studied ceramics traditions from across the world, including a three year research project on coffee culture that exposed her to larger mugs. This hand-built piece looks like it was hewn from a solid piece of stone, the way she shaped this by hand to preserve a solid anchoring feeling accentuated by her unique two step firing that involves an electric kiln firing to set the unglazed porcelain, followed by application of a blended ash glaze and finally an extensive multi-day wood-firing in her old-school kiln, reaching temperatures so high that the cup has to be hand-built from her custom porcelain blend instead of traditional clay. Holding the cup in hand, it feels like holding an ancient piece unearthed after thousands of years.

This teacup is large enough to hold in two hands and use for matcha or hold the full brew of a small yixing pot for solo brewing. Artist Yi Xuan was so proud of how this piece turned out that she applied her ancient-style seal to the bottom of the cup, where unglazed porcelain shows through the swirling colors of her hand-blended ash glaze. The rippling shape of the cup feels deeply intentional in its sculpting, and shows off the deep red and white so beautifully. Artist Yi Xuan took this cup through two full firing processes, first, an electric firing to set the porcelain, then a dip in a hand-blended ash glaze and an extensive multi-day wood-firing in her old-school kiln, reaching temperatures so high that the cup has to be hand-built from her custom porcelain blend instead of traditional clay. The result of this painstaking process is a unique, deep, complex cup that shows off the heat signature of the kiln and the way glazing interacts with unglazed porcelain across multiple firings. Work like this is what puts the Yi Xuan Ceramics Research Institute on the map!

This set of four tea cups by artist Yi Xuan is inscribed with the classical four character expression 松风水月, a line from a Tang Dynasty Li Ye poem describing a scene of perfect tranquility- pine trees bending lightly in the wind and moonlight on the water. This reference to natural beauty in transition pairs with the spirit of Yi Xuan’s own work- a portrait of her wood-fired kilns fleeting heat signature, and the spirit of gongfu tea itself. The iridescent cups are entirely hand-thrown by artist Yi Xuan and came out of the kiln with natural swirling iridescence, an artifact of the extreme heat of her three day firing process that gets so hot she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. These tea cups are not glazed - their color comes entirely from iron-oxide dusts present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing, making this piece incredibly thin and light, a true pleasure to hold in the hand.

Artist Yi Xuan loves old-school Fujianese Gongfu tea, where three or seven cups are lined up in a triangle, and tea is poured straight from a gaiwan into the cups for guests so it can be appreciated at peak aromatics. This set of three small gongfu tasting cups is perfect for serious oolong tasting. These stunning pieces are entirely hand-thrown by artist Yi Xuan and came out of the kiln with natural swirling iridescence, an artifact of the extreme heat of her three day firing process that gets so hot she has to build her work from a special hand-blended porcelain mix instead of traditional clay which would otherwise break apart in the kiln. The cups are not glazed- their color comes entirely from iron-oxide dusts present in her porcelain reacting to the heat of the firing, making them incredibly thin and light, a true pleasure to hold in the hand.

This stunning silvery cup is the result of years of research and experimentation by award-winning master potter Lin Xi. The rippling cascading patterns form under the high heat of Lin Xi’s kiln firing a glaze that Lin Xi personally sourced and blended from an original Shui Ji mineral deposit used in the Song Dynasty. The deep and mesmerizing patterns reflect the formation of iron oxides under the heat of the kiln, not an effect that is painted on. A variation of Lin Xi’s silver moon style, these cups have a dark pooling and heat effect to create the impression of a lunar eclipse. Each cup and patterning is unique. Each was fully hand-thrown and fired in tiny batches dependent on the whims of weather and kiln heat patterns to achieve the desired effect. This larger format cup is a true collectors piece, with Lin Xi’s one-man studio only able to produce very few cups that meet his exacting standards of perfection.

This iridescent rose gold cup is the result of years of research and experimentation by award-winning master potter Lin Xi. The iridescent rose-gold forms under the high heat of Lin Xi’s kiln firing a glaze that Lin Xi personally sourced and blended from an original Shui Ji mineral deposit used in the Song Dynasty. The iridescent effect reflects the formation of a rare kind of iron oxide under the heat of the kiln, not an effect that is painted on. This unique cup was fully hand-thrown and fired in tiny batches dependent on the whims of weather and kiln heat patterns to achieve the desired effect. This larger format cup is a true collectors piece, with Lin Xi’s one-man studio only able to produce very few cups that meet his exacting standards of perfection.

This iridescent blue cup is the result of years of research and experimentation by award-winning master potter Lin Xi. The iridescent silver-blue forms under the high heat of Lin Xi’s kiln firing a glaze that Lin Xi personally sourced and blended from an original Shui Ji mineral deposit used in the Song Dynasty. The iridescent effect reflects the formation of a rare kind of iron oxide under the heat of the kiln, not an effect that is painted on. This unique cup was fully hand-thrown and fired in tiny batches dependent on the whims of weather and kiln heat patterns to achieve the desired effect. This larger format cup is a true collectors piece, with Lin Xi’s one-man studio only able to produce very few cups that meet his exacting standards of perfection.

Award-winning potter Lin Xi is a master of controlling oxygen and temperature in the kiln and understanding how season and humidity affect firing outcomes. This beautiful and uncommon iridescent firing from Lin Xi is part of a series exploring the blooming bai hua (hundred flowers) pattern - a particular you di glaze that can be brought out with the right conditions in Lin Xi’s hand excavated and blended glaze. The shimmering and cascading oil spot glaze evokes the qualities of the Song Dynasty pieces that inspired Japanese Tennmokku and make a beautiful contrast to tea. This cup is impressed with Master Lin Xi’s seal on the foot and comes in a gift box with Lin Xi’s signed collectors certificate.

This iridescent blue and pink cup is the result of years of research and experimentation by award-winning master potter Lin Xi. The iridescent silver-blue forms under the high heat of Lin Xi’s kiln firing a glaze that Lin Xi personally sourced and blended from an original Shui Ji mineral deposit used in the Song Dynasty. The iridescent effect shimmers with blues, pinks and golds, reflecting the formation of a rare kind of iron oxide under the heat of the kiln, not an effect that is painted on. This unique cup was fully hand-thrown and fired in tiny batches dependent on the whims of weather and kiln heat patterns to achieve the desired effect. This larger format cup is a true collectors piece, with Lin Xi’s one-man studio only able to produce very few cups that meet his exacting standards of perfection.

These unique cups were hand-crafted by award-winning master potter Lin Xi at his studio in Wuyishan. Lin Xi personally sources and blends true Shui Ji clay and glazing materials to exactly match original Song Dynasty pieces excavated at kilns nearby, and fires just a few cups at a time. Each cup that turns out represents hours of labor from Master Lin Xi and dozens of pieces that didn’t fire to his exacting standards. These collectors' pieces feature a beautiful oil-spot pattern, and the elegant curves of the cup are meant to reflect the shape of a Magnolia blossom. Each cup and patterning is unique. Each was fully hand-thrown and fired in tiny batches. This larger format cup is a true collectors piece, with Lin Xi’s one-man studio only able to produce very few cups that meet his exacting standards of perfection.

This stunning  purple-gold cup is the result of years of research and experimentation by award-winning master potter Lin Xi. The rippling cascading purple gold forms under the high heat of Lin Xi’s kiln firing a glaze that Lin Xi personally sourced and blended from an original Shui Ji mineral deposit used in the Song Dynasty. The shimmering effect reflects the formation of a rare kind of iron oxide under the heat of the kiln, not an effect that is painted on. This cup starts a pale golden violet, and over time with use it takes on a deep warm finish. This unique cup was fully hand-thrown and fired in tiny batches dependent on the whims of weather and kiln heat patterns to achieve the desired effect. This larger format cup is a true collectors piece, with Lin Xi’s one-man studio only able to produce very few cups that meet his exacting standards of perfection.

These unique cups were hand-crafted by award-winning master potter Lin Xi at his studio in Wuyishan. Lin Xi personally sources and blends true Shui Ji clay and glazing materials to exactly match original Song Dynasty pieces excavated at kilns nearby, and fires just a few cups at a time. Each cup that turns out represents hours of labor from Master Lin Xi and dozens of pieces that didn’t fire to his exacting standards. These collectors' pieces feature a beautiful oil-spot pattern, and the elegant curves of the cup are meant to reflect the shape of a Magnolia blossom.

Each cup and patterning is unique. Each was fully hand-thrown and fired in tiny batches in the spring 2020< season. This larger format cup is a true collectors piece, with Lin Xi’s one-man studio only able to produce very few cups that meet his exacting standards of perfection.

Award-winning potter Lin Xi is a master of controlling oxygen and temperature in the kiln and understanding how season and humidity affect firing outcomes. This rare one-of-a-kind deep blue firing from Lin Xi is part of a series exploring blue yao bian- the shimmering effect that can be brought out with the right conditions in Lin Xi’s hand excavated and blended glaze.

The deep blue evokes the qualities of the Song Dynasty pieces that inspired Japanese Tennmokku, as well as the Jun glaze tradition, and make a beautiful contrast to tea. This cup is impressed with Master Lin Xi’s seal on the foot and comes in a gift box with Lin Xi’s signed collectors certificate.

Award-winning potter Lin Xi is a master of controlling oxygen and temperature in the kiln and understanding how season and humidity affect firing outcomes. This rare one-of-a-kind deep blue firing from Lin Xi is part of a series exploring blue yao bian- the shimmering effect that can be brought out with the right conditions in Lin Xi’s hand excavated and blended glaze.

The deep blue evokes the qualities of the Song Dynasty pieces that inspired Japanese Tennmokku, as well as the Jun glaze tradition, and make a beautiful contrast to tea. This cup is impressed with Master Lin Xi’s seal on the foot and comes in a gift box with Lin Xi’s signed collectors certificate.

Lin Xi’s fame as a leading potter reviving the Jian Zhan tradition started with his contribution of a totally new style of you di or oil drop glazing. This unique, one-of-a-kind cup is from Lin Xi’s award-winning firing featuring his stunning “Grapevine” pattern.  Each of these pieces is completely hand-thrown and hand finished by Lin Xi in his one-man studio. Lin Xi personally sources and blends true Shui Ji clay and glazing materials to exactly match original Song Dynasty pieces excavated at kilns nearby, and fires just a few cups at a time. Each cup that turns out represents hours of labor from Master Lin Xi and dozens of pieces that didn’t fire to his exacting standards.

This piece is stamped with Lin Xi’s personal seal, and packed with a collectors certificate in a beautiful gift box.

Lin Xi’s fame as a leading potter reviving the Jian Zhan tradition started with his contribution of a totally new style of you di or oil drop glazing. This unique, one-of-a-kind cup is from Lin Xi’s award-winning firing featuring his stunning “Grapevine” pattern.  Each of these pieces is completely hand-thrown and hand finished by Lin Xi in his one-man studio. Lin Xi personally sources and blends true Shui Ji clay and glazing materials to exactly match original Song Dynasty pieces excavated at kilns nearby, and fires just a few cups at a time. Each cup that turns out represents hours of labor from Master Lin Xi and dozens of pieces that didn’t fire to his exacting standards.

This piece is stamped with Lin Xi’s personal seal, and packed with a collectors certificate in a beautiful gift box.

Lin Xi’s fame as a leading potter reviving the Jian Zhan tradition started with his contribution of a totally new style of you di or oil drop glazing. This unique, one-of-a-kind cup is from Lin Xi’s award-winning firing featuring his stunning “Grapevine” pattern.  Each of these pieces is completely hand-thrown and hand finished by Lin Xi in his one-man studio. Lin Xi personally sources and blends true Shui Ji clay and glazing materials to exactly match original Song Dynasty pieces excavated at kilns nearby, and fires just a few cups at a time. Each cup that turns out represents hours of labor from Master Lin Xi and dozens of pieces that didn’t fire to his exacting standards.

This piece is stamped with Lin Xi’s personal seal, and packed with a collectors certificate in a beautiful gift box.

Lin Xi’s fame as a leading potter reviving the Jian Zhan tradition started with his contribution of a totally new style of you di or oil drop glazing. This unique, one-of-a-kind cup is from Lin Xi’s award-winning firing featuring his stunning “Grapevine” pattern.  Each of these pieces is completely hand-thrown and hand finished by Lin Xi in his one-man studio. Lin Xi personally sources and blends true Shui Ji clay and glazing materials to exactly match original Song Dynasty pieces excavated at kilns nearby, and fires just a few cups at a time. Each cup that turns out represents hours of labor from Master Lin Xi and dozens of pieces that didn’t fire to his exacting standards.

This piece is stamped with Lin Xi’s personal seal, and packed with a collectors certificate in a beautiful gift box.

Lin Xi’s fame as a leading potter reviving the Jian Zhan tradition started with his contribution of a totally new style of you di or oil drop glazing. This unique, one-of-a-kind cup is from Lin Xi’s award-winning firing featuring his stunning “Grapevine” pattern.  Each of these pieces is completely hand-thrown and hand finished by Lin Xi in his one-man studio. Lin Xi personally sources and blends true Shui Ji clay and glazing materials to exactly match original Song Dynasty pieces excavated at kilns nearby, and fires just a few cups at a time. Each cup that turns out represents hours of labor from Master Lin Xi and dozens of pieces that didn’t fire to his exacting standards.

This piece is stamped with Lin Xi’s personal seal, and packed with a collectors certificate in a beautiful gift box.

Lin Xi’s fame as a leading potter reviving the Jian Zhan tradition started with his contribution of a totally new style of you di or oil drop glazing. This unique, one-of-a-kind cup is from Lin Xi’s award-winning firing featuring his stunning “Grapevine” pattern.  Each of these pieces is completely hand-thrown and hand finished by Lin Xi in his one-man studio. Lin Xi personally sources and blends true Shui Ji clay and glazing materials to exactly match original Song Dynasty pieces excavated at kilns nearby, and fires just a few cups at a time. Each cup that turns out represents hours of labor from Master Lin Xi and dozens of pieces that didn’t fire to his exacting standards.

This piece is stamped with Lin Xi’s personal seal, and packed with a collectors certificate in a beautiful gift box.

This collectors' piece features a beautiful oil-spot pattern, and the elegant curves of the cup evokes the shape of a Magnolia blossom. No two cups from Master Lin Xi are the same - the result of his dedicated approach to reviving ancient Song Dynasty pottery techniques. This cup was hand-crafted by award-winning master potter Lin Xi at his studio in Wuyishan. Lin Xi personally sources and blends true Shui Ji clay and glazing materials to exactly match original Song Dynasty pieces excavated at kilns nearby, and fires in an old-school Dragon Kiln built into the side of a mountain. Each cup that turns out represents hours of labor from Master Lin Xi and dozens of pieces that didn’t fire to his exacting standards.

This collectors' piece features a beautiful oil-spot pattern, and the elegant curves of the cup evokes the shape of a Magnolia blossom. No two cups from Master Lin Xi are the same - the result of his dedicated approach to reviving ancient Song Dynasty pottery techniques. This cup was hand-crafted by award-winning master potter Lin Xi at his studio in Wuyishan. Lin Xi personally sources and blends true Shui Ji clay and glazing materials to exactly match original Song Dynasty pieces excavated at kilns nearby, and fires in an old-school Dragon Kiln built into the side of a mountain. Each cup that turns out represents hours of labor from Master Lin Xi and dozens of pieces that didn’t fire to his exacting standards.