Verdant Tea

This contemporary travel kit from Xiangfu Design Studio features clean white porcelain paired with elegant bamboo, including a brewing pitcher and two cups. The bamboo cleverly insulates your hands from heat while brewing and sipping, while the perfectly-formed case secures your set for travel. Clip this set to a backpack or bike bag and you’ll be ready for your next adventure.

This compact brewer is perfect for travel, camping, and space-conscious brewing. The nesting porcelain cups are thin and fine enough for careful sipping and tasting. The glass brewer comes with a brew insert that can be removed with the leaves when the tea is perfectly steeped. The wood handle on the brewer is a stylish touch that protects you from the heat of steeping tea.

This convenient travel tea set is perfect for the tea lover on the move. This elegantly-conceived travel set comes in its own linen travel bag. The black frame around the set doubles as a handle. The set unfolds in half, and each half is covered with wooden slats to create a generously large tea board with draining reservoir. The fragile porcelain comes in a special foam case with its own strap. The porcelain brewer can double as a pitcher when brewing with its metal strainer insert to allow leaves to be easily removed when steeped. A fourth larger cup can double as a strainer holder. This set is the perfect complete solution for any space-conscious brewing or tea on the go.

This convenient travel tea set is perfect for the tea lover on the go. Whether you're taking tea to the office or pouring gong fu in the great outdoors, this set has everything you need to brew loose leaf tea for two! The set from Xiang Fu ( 祥福 / Stone Leaf Tea Set ) includes a brewing pitcher and two small celadon nesting cups, all packing conveniently into the padded case. The celadon and stainless steel strainer insert make brewing tea in the tempered glass pitcher simple and convenient.

We love using this easy brewing system in compact spaces or for tea while we are busy. A modern version of the easy gaiwan, this brewing is made of a tempered glass pitcher with a rubber base to protect the glass from chipping, a loose bamboo wrap to insulate the heat and protect your hands, and a ceramic brew basket with easy-to-clean stainless steel mesh. Simply add leaves to the basket, steep and remove. The finished tea can be poured from the brew pitcher into your favorite cups. The lid of the basket doubles as a saucer so that you don’t need to worry about dripping on a desk or table.

Xiangfu Workshop’s new 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. This generous complete tea set features a stunning swirled teapot with a long wooden handle to accent the celadon’s green, and its very own tea boat to catch drips and allow for modern gongfu brewing without a tea board. The pot is paired with six matching cups and a gorgeous pitcher. Finally, a celadon strainer with its own stand, carved wooden saucers and a wooden cup tweezers rounds out the set. The whole package comes in a beautiful lined box built just for this set.

This convenient travel tea set is perfect for the tea lover on the move. Whether you're taking your tea to the office or just love to travel with tea, this set has everything you need to brew loose leaf tea for four! The set from Xiang Fu ( 祥福 / Stone Leaf Tea Set ) includes a brewing pitcher, four double-walled tempered glass bubble cups, bamboo tea board, tweezers & terry cloth - all packed into a stylish messenger bag!

This incredible set has been meticulously handcrafted by two brothers in Dehua who studied both the Japanese Tenmoku tradition and the Song dynasty Jian Zhan tradition. This set is an invitation to a simpler tea ceremony- green leaves steeped in a dark bowl to show their color, and strained into each cup with the special ladle. Due to natural variation during firing, the beautiful patterns on each tea bowl and ladle will all be slightly different.

A professional chef keeps their knives in a cloth knife roll, so why not keep your tea tools in an elegant cloth roll too? This convenient and portable set comes with a scoop, a tweezers, a brush, a pick and a spoon, all elegant bamboo, in their own pockets in a Yunnan motif roll for gongfu tea at home or on the go. Cloth roll patterns will vary; all patterns share natural motifs and soothing colors

Sometimes a mug is just right for enjoying the comforting side of tea, sipping while working, reading, or waking up in the morning. This hand painted porcelain mug features a fine strainer that fits perfectly so that you can take out your tea leaves when they are brewed just the way you like them, and a lid to keep your tea warm if you need to come back to it later. The vitrified porcelain ensures the maximum aromatics in each sip.

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

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 tea set includes one gaiwan, one pitcher, one strainer, and two matching ru yao tea cups. 

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.

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.

This beautiful series features a hand-painted motif drawing on the Tang dynasty tradition of gardens set up for scholarly contemplation and meditation, highlighting the beauty of natural objects like unique rocks and trees through the seasons. This ‘scholar’s garden’ motif follows through with leaves from the tree settling on the uniquely wide and ornate gaiwan saucer for an incredible effect. The artists of the De Hua Peng Yuan Studio are dedicated to honoring the art of porcelain with lustrous and highly vitrified pieces that reflect the true aroma of tea. This set includes the unique wide-saucer gaiwan, a pitcher and two matching cups. Every hand-painted piece is unique.

This full modern gongfu set up includes a long carved tea board to catch any drips while brewing. The carved lines of the board that evoke the topography of a landscape are a perfect pairing for the scholarly porcelain series. This beautiful series features a hand-painted motif drawing on the Tang dynasty tradition of gardens set up for scholarly contemplation and meditation, highlighting the beauty of natural objects like unique rocks and trees through the seasons.  This set includes the topography tea board, unique wide-saucer gaiwan, a pitcher and two pairs of matching cups. Every hand-painted piece is unique.

This new series from Peng Yuan studio features some of the thinnest fine and lustrous porcelain of De Hua. These pieces almost glow in the light with their translucency. A single warm band of color has been applied to each porcelain piece for contrast and style. This set includes a perfectly-flared gaiwan, two cups, a strainer, and a tempered glass pitcher that shows off the color of your brew.

The lustrous banded porcelain series is paired with a solid draining walnut tea board adorned with golden calligraphy for an elegant full gongfu set up. This new series from Peng Yuan studio features some of the thinnest fine and lustrous porcelain of De Hua. These pieces almost glow in the light with their translucency. A single warm band of color has been applied to each porcelain piece for contrast and style. This set includes a walnut gongfu board, a perfectly-flared gaiwan, two cups, a strainer, and a tempered glass pitcher that shows off the color of your brew.

A glass teapot can be a beautiful way to show off the beauty of your tea as it unfurls throughout the steeping. Being able to see the deep beautiful color of the tea as it steeps builds anticipation for the first taste, making tempered Min Xin Glass Teapot a perfect brewing solution. This set pairs the teapot with two hand-painted misty mountain landscape tea cups, and a tea tray carved with a mountain landscape to match.

Clean, modern and striking forms define this new series from the Peng Yuan porcelain studio in Dehua. A perfect gongfu-sized teapot is the star, with its unique and stylized spout and lid, perfectly paired with a simple but gracefully curved pitcher and two cups. Each piece is high-fired ang highly vitrified to reflect the true aroma of your tea.

The modern sensibilities of the Peng Yuan studio’s latest series is paired with an elegant draining walnut board, simply adorned with gingko leaves for a full gongfu set up which also includes a striking gongfu-sized teapot with its unique and stylized spout and lid, perfectly paired with a simple but gracefully curved pitcher and two cups. This set is clean, modern and versatile in form and function.

Gongfu tea can be a perfect solo companion, helping carve out time in the day to stop and enjoy taste, texture and aroma of fine tea. This set is the perfect size for one, including a fine Ge Song celadon teapot fired in Longquan, the birthplace of celadon craft, a hand thrown hare’s fur Jian Zhan teacup from artist Lin Xi, and a space-effective tea tray to catch any water or tea while you brew.