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Out of Stock$29.99The Muchun Gaiwan is crafted from fine white porcelain, exuding a serene and pure aesthetic reminiscent of the gentle, warm breeze of late spring—tranquil and graceful. Its overall design is simple and fluid, with a subtly rounded body and a slightly flared rim, ensuring a comfortable grip while allowing for smooth, burn-free pouring.
Design Highlights:
- Minimalist Elegance – Entirely unadorned in pure white, with a glaze as smooth as jade. Its understated beauty embodies the restrained sophistication of Eastern aesthetics.
- Balanced Proportions – The gently rounded shape ensures an effortless and comfortable hold, enhancing the tactile experience.
- Seamless Pouring – The well-proportioned rim allows tea to flow smoothly without spilling, making each pour a graceful moment.
- Versatile and Practical – Suitable for a variety of teas, particularly delicate and aromatic types such as green and white tea, allowing the true clarity and color of the infusion to shine through.
More than just a functional teaware piece, the Muchun Gaiwan is a poetic addition to any tea session. Whether enjoyed alone or shared with guests, it brings a sense of tranquility and refinement, letting tea drinkers savor the lingering charm of spring in every sip.
$18.99This Tall Stem Master Cup is crafted from elegant white porcelain, featuring a refined and graceful design reminiscent of a classical goblet. Its elevated structure enhances the tea ceremony with a sense of ritual, making it a distinguished presence on any tea table. The smooth, well-balanced proportions highlight understated sophistication, blending the aesthetics of Eastern tea culture with the elegance of Western vessels.
Design Highlights:
- Tall Stem Design: The elongated, elevated base creates a refined silhouette, adding depth to the tea-drinking experience while ensuring a comfortable grip and enhancing the sense of ceremony.
- Delicate Glaze: The porcelain glaze is smooth and jade-like, offering a soft sheen that embodies the essence of minimalist Eastern aesthetics.
- Curved Rim: The slightly flared rim fits naturally against the lips, providing a comfortable drinking experience.
- Stable Footing: The well-proportioned footed base ensures stability, preventing accidental tipping during use.
This Tall Stem Master Cup is not only a practical tea vessel but also an artistic statement that enhances the beauty of any tea session. Whether for solitary contemplation or a formal tea gathering, it elevates every sip with elegance and refinement.
$79.99This famille rose yellow glaze aroma cup featuring the “Jade Rabbit Looking at the Moon” pattern is a beautiful piece that combines traditional Chinese artistry with exquisite craftsmanship.
Design and Appearance
- Shape Characteristics: Aroma cups are typically more slender than regular teacups. This design helps retain heat and release the tea’s aroma slowly, allowing the drinker to savor the subtle differences in the fragrance of various tea types over a longer period.
- Pattern: The aroma cup is adorned with the “Jade Rabbit Looking at the Moon” motif, depicting two white rabbits gazing up at a full moon surrounded by flowing green bamboo leaves, creating a serene and poetic scene.
- Color: The surface of the aroma cup is covered with a bright yellow glaze that is rich and vibrant in color. The use of famille rose technique brings the overglaze painting to life, making it vivid and full of charm.
Craftsmanship and Techniques
- Yellow Glaze: The use of yellow glaze is a special technique in Chinese porcelain art. It involves applying a yellow pigment over the ceramic body before firing it in the kiln. This process gives the teapot its striking and vibrant yellow color.
- Famille Rose: Famille rose, or “fencai” in Chinese, is a type of overglaze decoration. This technique uses a palette of soft and delicate colors that are painted over the glaze and then fired at a lower temperature. The famille rose technique is evident in the detailed depiction of the rabbits, the moon, and the bamboo leaves, which are finely painted with soft and harmonious colors.
Symbolism and Cultural Significance
The meaning of “The Jade Rabbit Looking at the Moon” primarily expresses deep longing for loved ones. This meaning originates from an ancient mythological story where the jade rabbit requests to reside in the Moon Palace to accompany Chang’e, thus creating the image of the jade rabbit looking at the moon. This story not only showcases the jade rabbit’s kindness and care for family but also reflects the ancients’ emphasis on family and kinship. In traditional Chinese culture, “The Jade Rabbit Looking at the Moon” is not only a symbol of the Mid-Autumn Festival but also an important cultural element for expressing longing and the desire for reunion.
The Jade Rabbit Looking at the Moon aroma teacup embodies the richness of traditional Chinese culture and poetic beauty. It is not only a practical tea ware but also a beautiful decorative piece that can be cherished and admired.
Out of Stock$139.99Design and Appearance
- Shape: The gaiwan adopts the classic three-piece design, consisting of a lid, bowl, and saucer. Its shape is full and round with smooth lines, providing a comfortable grip, making it both beautiful and practical.
- Glaze Color: The surface of the gaiwan is covered with Aurora Blue glaze, showcasing a rich color variation. From deep blue to elegant white, it mimics the movement of the aurora in the night sky, evoking a sense of tranquility and mystery. The glaze is smooth like jade with a warm and lustrous color.
Craftsmanship and Techniques
- Kiln-Transformation Technique: This gaiwan is crafted using traditional kiln-transformation techniques, making each piece unique in glaze color and texture. The high-temperature changes during firing create natural color flows and textures, giving each gaiwan a distinct artistic charm.
- Aurora Blue Glaze: Aurora Blue glaze is a special type of glaze formed through multiple high-temperature firings. It features rich and distinct layers of color, high glossiness, a smooth and warm texture, and stable, fade-resistant color.
Usage and Function
- Tea Tasting Experience: This Aurora Blue Three-Talents Gaiwan not only has an elegant appearance but also enhances your tea-tasting experience. The design and glaze color complement each other, making the tea color more enticing and the aroma more intense. It is ideal for enjoying various high-quality teas, especially those with high fragrance.
- Collection and Display: As a premium piece in tea ware collections, this gaiwan is exceptionally elegant whether used personally or given as a gift. Its unique glaze color and exquisite craftsmanship make it not only a practical tea set but also a collectible and display-worthy piece of art.
This kiln-transformed Aurora Blue San Cai Gaiwan blends traditional craftsmanship with modern aesthetics, showcasing unique artistic charm and practical value. It not only offers an excellent experience for tea lovers but also serves as an art piece, adding beauty and joy to life.
Attention:
- Kiln-fired glaze variations are often unpredictable and can result in a wide range of colours from a single firing.
- The porosity of ceramics varies depending on the materials used, the recipe, the pressure applied, the duration of pressure, the thickness of the body, the firing temperature, and the duration of firing. Generally, the finer the porcelain, the smaller the pores, while the coarser the pottery, the larger the pores.
- Since porcelain is made from clay, the amount of iron spots present in the clay varies depending on the mineral content of the soil. These iron spots are harmless and do not affect the use of the porcelain. Removing them would require the use of chemical materials, which can be damaging to high-quality porcelain.
- Handmade products are not perfect, and each piece can have differences in size, shape, colour, and other aspects.
Out of Stock$399.99This teacup, designed in the style of the Ming Dynasty, is crafted using the underglaze blue and white porcelain technique, and is entirely hand-painted. The intricate and exquisite artwork features peach blossoms, ducks, butterflies, and the spring river. Two adult ducks, accompanied by ducklings, swim freely in the warming spring waters, surrounded by blooming peach blossoms and playful butterflies. The scene is vivid and natural, evoking a serene beauty. The artwork captures the essence of early spring on the river, portraying how ducks are the first to sense the warming waters, expressing joy and reverence for the arrival of spring.
Design and Appearance
- Shape: The teacup has smooth lines and a comfortable grip, combining unique and beautiful design elements.
- Glaze Colour: The surface of the teacup has a warm and smooth glaze. The base color is white, with the hand-painted underglaze blue technique, creating a deep and layered blue color.
Craftsmanship and Techniques
- Hand-Painted Artwork: The designs on the teacup are meticulously hand-painted, making each piece unique and full of artistic value.
- Tin Spot Technique: The glaze surface uses the tin spot technique, creating a mottled visual effect that adds a sense of history and texture, enhancing the antique charm of the teacup.
Ming-style teaware always features a distinctive tin spot pattern, giving the tea ware a unique charm. The formation of tin spots is due to the high content of iron elements in local parts of the blue pigment. After reaching saturation in the high-temperature glaze solution and cooling down, the iron elements in the supersaturated part start to precipitate. If the iron content of the blue pigment is higher and the cooling rate is appropriate, tin spots are more likely to appear on the surface of the ware.
In addition to firing and materials, the formation of tin spots also involves the factor of glaze material. During the painting process, tin spots can also be formed due to the accumulation of blue pigment. Tin spots are more likely to appear on the surface of the ware at the intersections and the starting and ending points of brushstrokes. The formation of tin spots can be said to be a natural creation or an artificial decoration. These tin glazes not only add a rustic texture to the teacup but also imbue it with a unique sense of history.
The artwork on this teacup is delicate, with fine brushstrokes that outline a unique sense of line beauty. The underglaze blue pigment is rich, featuring distinctive and prominent tin spots that appear exceptionally beautiful and captivating under the light.
$418.99This Blue and White Landscape Gaiwan is handcrafted using traditional blue and white porcelain techniques, showcasing the elegant style of traditional Chinese landscape painting. The gaiwan features intricate landscape scenes, depicting bridges, mountains, rivers, trees, pavilions, and figures, creating a sense of tranquility and timelessness. The blue glaze varies in intensity, creating depth and dimension, capturing both the grandeur of the landscape and the finer details. The blue and white patterns on the tea set harmonize with the tea when poured, enhancing the tea-drinking experience.
Design and Appearance:
- Shape: The gaiwan has a classic shape with smooth lines, offering a comfortable grip and adhering to the traditional design of tea ware.
- Pattern: The hand-painted blue and white landscape pattern on the gaiwan is exquisitely detailed, showcasing the artist’s superior craftsmanship, especially in the depiction of rocks and trees, giving a three-dimensional effect.
Craftsmanship and Techniques:
- Blue and White Technique: This gaiwan is crafted using traditional blue and white porcelain techniques. The blue pigment fuses with the porcelain at high temperatures, resulting in a bright and stable glaze that is resistant to fading. The blue hue exudes a delicate tone under light, appearing particularly fresh and vibrant.
- Hand-Painted: The entire piece is hand-painted by skilled artisans, with each stroke infused with artistic expression, reflecting the artist’s profound understanding of traditional landscape aesthetics. Hand-painting ensures that each tea set is unique, with subtle differences that express the individuality and emotion of the artist. This handcrafted warmth and uniqueness cannot be matched by mass-produced items.
The Blue and White Landscape tea set is not just a functional utensil but also a symbol of traditional Chinese culture and art. It embodies the Chinese love for nature, the pursuit of art, and the appreciation of life aesthetics. Using such a tea set is not only about enjoying the flavor of the tea but also about savoring a cultural experience and lifestyle.
