This unique teapot from Ming Xin Tang comes with two inserts, a generously-large brew basket to give your leaves plenty of room to infuse as you watch them unfurl, and a bonus steam-percolator glass insert designed to continuously steam your tea leaves and drip down over low heat. The wide spout makes for a fast clean pour, and the ample capacity means you can serve fine tea for a big group.
This large modern-style teapot from Ming Xin Tang features a unique design with two different glass inserts: a generously-large brew basket to give your leaves plenty of room to infuse as you watch them unfurl, and a bonus steam-percolator glass insert designed to continuously steam your tea leaves and drip down over low heat. The wood handle makes for an elegant pour as you show off your finest teas.
This creamy blue-green Ru glaze teapot 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 dramatic and tall looping handle on this celadon teapot is notoriously difficult to form and fire, but the effect is gorgeous, like a little kettle or a picnic basket. 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.
The ewer is a traditional implement originally used for pouring rice wine at banquets and later adopted to tea ceremony. By pouring your boiling water in an ewer first, you can bring the temperature down to a perfect level for delicate green tea, white tea, or even buddy black teas. Plus, pouring from the ewer makes for a stunningly elegant presentation for deliberate gongfu tea ritual.
Tall, bold, angular and geometric, this celadon set features a hand-finished gaiwan, two tall cups that could easily double as aroma cups, and a hexagonal celadon pitcher. Traditional high-fired Longquan kiln celadon is fully-vitrified, non-reactive and perfect for amplifying the aromatics and texture of your tea. Embrace the beautiful jade celadon inspired by the Song Dynasty pottery tradition!
Yi Li Zhu means pearl, a fitting name for a teapot with such a graceful pearl-like pot body. Award-winning master potter Lai Xiaohong truly shines with her work on simple powerful shapes like this one, setting off each detail with perfect balance. Lai Xiaohong excavates and blends her own clay, and is particularly famous for her Di Cao Qing’s mottling and the way it builds a luster and patina over time.
The gu xiang is one of Lai Xiaohong’s favorite forms, a shape she keeps coming back to thanks to its balance and grace. This unique Gu Xiang features a tall curved lid handle and boldly-offset spout, giving the pot poise and energy. Award-winning artist Lai Xiaohong is famous for her hand-excavated and blended Di Cao Qing clay, a rich, dense and mottled clay that Lai Xiahong blends from minerals settled in her trough after months of careful aging. The warm Di Cao Qing clay is ready to take on more depth and luster over a lifetime of use.
Much of Lai Xiaohong’s career has been a meditation on the various shapes inspired by the moon. This special ban yue or “half moon” teapot is one of her oldest most classic forms, perfectly balanced with graceful sweeping lines and a perfectly integrated spout. Lai Xiaohong hand-crafted this teapot with strikingly beautiful Qing Hui Ni for a lifetime of use.
Award-winning artist Lai Xiaohong is well known for her beautiful Di Cao Qing clay - a rich, dense and mottled clay that Lai Xiahong blends from minerals settled in her trough after months of careful aging. This meticulously hand-built and classic "Xi Shi" form shows off Lai Xiaohong’s traditional grounding and her modern fluid sensibility in her art. The warm Di Cao Qing clay is ready to take on more depth and luster over a lifetime of use.
Award-winning artist Lai Xiaohong is famous for her hand-excavated and blended Di Cao Qing clay, a rich, dense and mottled clay that Lai Xiahong blends from minerals settled in her trough after months of careful aging. This playful "Nan Gua" or gourd form shows off Lai Xiaohong’s traditional grounding and her modern fluid sensibility in her art. The warm Di Cao Qing clay is ready to take on more depth and luster over a lifetime of use.
Much of Lai Xiaohong’s career has been a meditation on the various shapes inspired by the moon. This lovely ban yue or “half moon” teapot is one of her most classic forms, perfectly balanced with graceful sweeping lines and a perfectly integrated spout. Lai Xiaohong hand-crafted this teapot with beautiful Duan Ni for a lifetime of use.
Much of Lai Xiaohong’s career has been a meditation on the various shapes inspired by the moon. This lovely ban yue or “half moon” teapot is one of her most classic forms, perfectly balanced with graceful sweeping lines and a perfectly integrated spout. Lai Xiaohong hand-crafted this teapot with beautiful Duan Ni for a lifetime of use.
Award-winning artist Lai Xiaohong is famous for her hand-excavated and blended Di Cao Qing clay, a rich, dense and mottled clay that Lai Xiahong blends from minerals settled in her trough after months of careful aging. This classic "Bi Yu" form shows off Lai Xiaohong’s traditional grounding and her modern fluid sensibility in her art. The warm Di Cao Qing clay is ready to take on more depth and luster over a lifetime of use.
This beautifully-classic form comes to life in master-potter Lai Xiaohong’s hands, adorned with a fluid and energetic carving of a bird perched on a branch. The rich warm speckled Zi Ni clay shines in the light, accentuating the graceful curves of the pot itself. This piece is a perfect example of why Lai Xiahong is such a well-respected potter- she brings together ancient forms and modern sensibility with an effortless-feeling grace yielding work that is a pleasure to use for a lifetime.
Master Potter Lai Xiaohong has an incredible skill for bringing a dynamic and playfeel feeling to her work, even in traditional forms. This lovely Di Cao Qing teapot features a gestural carving of children at play, a nod to tea as play and reminder to have fun tasting every brew. Lai Xiaohong excavates and blends her own clay, and is particularly famous for her Di Cao Qing’s mottling and the way it builds a luster and patina over time.
This beautiful little teapot by award-winning master potter Lai Xiahong stays true to tradition, evoking the classic han wa form, but with such a playful lid handle adornment, like a classical garden bridge. The wide lid makes this perfect for brewing particularly fluffy teas like Big Red Robe. Lai Xiaohong excavates and blends her own clay, and is particularly famous for her Di Cao Qing’s mottling and the way it builds a luster and patina over time.
Award-winning artist Lai Xiaohong brings together fine clay and a modern, organic sensibility to traditional forms. This sculpted "Shi Piao" teapot is a perfect example of her hand crafted work. The classic "stone dipper" form features a playfully sculpted lid evoking bamboo. The deep Di Cao Qing clay will age beautifully with any kind of tea, gaining more depth and luster over years of brewing.
Award-winning artist Lai Xiaohong is famous for her hand-excavated and blended Di Cao Qing clay, a rich, dense and mottled clay that Lai Xiahong blends from minerals settled in her trough after months of careful aging. This meticulously hand-built Han Wa form shows off Lai Xiaohong’s traditional grounding and features a carved underwater scene that also evoke dragons in flight. The warm Di Cao Qing clay is ready to take on more depth and luster over a lifetime of use.
Award-winning artist Lai Xiaohong is famous for her hand-excavated and blended Di Cao Qing clay, a rich, dense and mottled clay that Lai Xiahong blends from minerals settled in her trough after months of careful aging. This deceptively simple pot shows off Lai Xiaohong’s traditional grounding and her modern fluid sensibility in her art, featuring a surprising animal seal carving on the wide pot lid. The warm Di Cao Qing clay is ready to take on more depth and luster over a lifetime of use.
This beautifully carved Di Cao Qing Ni tea pot from Lai Xiaohong is hand built with sculpted detail. The simple, traditional body is accented with tiny, beautifully rendered calligraphy and topped with a flat lid that’s adorned with a delicately sculpted “heart” shaped handle. The spout and handle are gracefully balanced and built for a lifetime of use, and the gorgeous clay is just waiting to be seasoned and grow more lustrous over the years.
Award-winning artist Lai Xiaohong brings together fine clay and a modern, organic sensibility to traditional forms. This beautifully carved Shi Piao teapot is hand built with deep and mottled Di Cao Qing clay and features a contemplative water scene across one side. The craving will stand out more over time, gaining more depth and luster over years of brewing.
Yi Li Zhu means pearl, a fitting name for a teapot with such a graceful pearl-like pot body. Award-winning potter Lai Xiaohong shines with her work on simple powerful shapes like this one, setting off each detail with perfect balance. Lai Xiaohong excavates and blends her own clay, and is particularly well-known for her Di Cao Qing’s mottling and the way it builds a luster and patina over time.
Award-winning artist Lai Xiaohong is famous for her hand-excavated and blended Di Cao Qing clay, a rich, dense and mottled clay that Lai Xiahong blends from minerals settled in her trough after months of careful aging. This traditional "Qin Quan" form features graceful bamboo stretching up across the face of the pot. The carving will grow in depth over time as the warm Di Cao Qing clay gains luster over a lifetime of use.
Duan Ni can be such a deep and expressive clay, and in the hands of Lai Xiaohong, it really comes to life. The smooth modern curves of the pot body reflect the light from every angle, giving the clay a more lustrous quality, while the adornment on the lid gives the piece new meaning. The swirled clay forms a perfectly-sculpted scholar’s rock: an object of contemplation, and a commentary on the yixing pot as the modern scholarly object of contemplation itself.
Award-winning artist Lai Xiaohong brings together fine clay and a modern, organic sensibility to traditional forms. This beautifully carved Shi Piao teapot is hand built with deep and mottled Di Cao Qing clay and features a contemplative landscape across one side. The carving will stand out more over time, gaining more depth and luster over years of brewing.
The gourd form might very well be the original water vessel. Pre-pottery and pre metal-work, our ancestors had access to hollowed gourds. This ancient grounding continues to inform yixing design even today. This pot is a celebration of Yixing’s connection to early history, evoking a perfectly-formed pumpkin In Master Potter Zhu Huan’s hands, this pot takes on effortless grace with perfect finishing work and details like a lid handle that mimics the pot body. The Qing Shui Ni clay will continue to grow deeper and more lustrous with years of use.
This stunning Huang Jin Duan Ni teapot is part of Lai Xiaohong’s award-winning masterwork series combining the strength and elegance of classic form seamlessly with natural detail. The craft and time required to form a pot that transitions so perfectly between stark and clean abstraction to elegant touches of bamboo tests Lai Xiaohong’s skill and demands many dozens more hours of work to execute with her level of effortlessness. Qiu Fu, or the “Allure of Autumn” evokes the deeply meaningful concept of Yun (韵)used in tea, music and dance to describe a sensation that lingers with you, reverberates and transforms on itself long after the experience of art has passed. This piece evokes the reverberation of a gnarled tree branch viewed as a reflection in a still pond lit by moonlight. As a light breeze sweeps across the pond it creates ripples, reverberations, and transforms the still life into a dynamic and moving piece full of energy. Lai Xiaohong captures the poetry of this scene in clay.
This stunning sculptural piece is potter Zhu Huan’s take on the traditional Shi Piao form. The Shi Piao is a celebration of perfect triangles, mirrored in the proportion of the pot body, the lid and spout, an aesthetic reflection of Taoist aesthetics. The rich, subtly-mottled Yuan Kuang Hong Chen Pi clay brings a quiet but elegant natural and organic side to a form that is typically purely geometric. This balance of natural elements and geometry rounds out the Shi Piao’s mirrored form as an ultimate expression of tightly-wound balance and grace. Every detail, from the long spout to the triangular handle and shi piao feet make this teapot a pleasure to use, and the original deposit clay will continue to grow deeper and more lustrous over time.