Verdant Tea

This tempered glass teapot is perfect for versatile brewing, and comes with a removable strainer for the spout. The high-quality glass shows off your tea leaves as they unfurl, creating a show in anticipation of the first sip. A glass teapot is great for beautiful buddy leaves like Silver Needle White, Golden Fleece, Sheng Pu’er, or Dragonwell Green.

Xiangfu Workshop’s new line of Ge Song Celadon is fired using traditional techniques in Longquan, the birthplace of Celadon pottery. The light crackling on this bluer shade of celadon grows over a lifetime of use, slowly filling in darker with tea for a beautiful effect. Well-sized for gongfu tea for up to four people, this versatile little pot is suitable for brewing any kind of tea.

Xiangfu works with ceramicists in Longquan for to offer their high-end Ge Song series, relying on careful hand-glazing and high firing temperatures. The celadon crackles while firing for beautiful patterns across the teapot. Fine crystalline formations under the glazing surface make the whole pot shine in the light. Xiangfu has styled this piece after traditional Japanese Kyusu for the long handle inspiration. The handle is left unglazed to show off the beautiful pottery underneath and for an easier grip while pouring.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.