Verdant Tea

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 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 Qing Yuan Peng Hua studio in Dehua. The tempered glass pitcher and stainless steel strainer make it easy to brew for a group.

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.

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.

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.

The freeform branch series, hand-painted by the Qing Hua studio, is all about abundance. The branches almost overflow with spring blossoms, standing out in elegant contrast in traditional blue glazing. Blue painting requires the highest firing temperature in porcelain craft, but the result is stunning. This full set includes matching cups, a gaiwan, pitcher and strainer. Each piece is hand-painted, so every branch is unique.

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.

Xiangfu delivers full-on gongfu brewing in the smallest, most portable form factor with this new set. Three cups nest inside a stylish glass and bamboo brewer with a 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.

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. The striking motif 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.

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.

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 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 bamboo motif fired in both blue and green, 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.

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

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.

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. 

This Ru glaze set features a gaiwan, a pitcher, and two cups, all with the same complimentary motifs. The creamy blue-green Ru glaze against the gold 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.