Tea Cups

This Handwritten Poetry Tall Footed Teacup is crafted using the white slip technique, presenting a rustic yet elegant oriental aesthetic. The cup body features a warm ivory hue with a delicate and smooth glaze, showcasing the natural texture unique to handmade ceramics. Around the rim, handwritten poetry is inscribed in fluid strokes, adding a refined literary touch and imbuing the piece with poetic and meditative charm.

Design Highlights:

• White Slip Technique: The outer wall is coated with a white slip glaze, creating a subtle hazy effect where the ceramic body gently shows through. This process gives the cup a warm, aged texture, making each piece unique.
• Handwritten Poetry: The rim is adorned with flowing calligraphic poetry, enhancing the tea-drinking experience with an artistic and cultural essence, evoking the spirit of traditional scholars.
• Tall Footed Design: The elevated foot enhances the ceremonial aspect of tea appreciation while preventing direct contact with the heated body of the cup, ensuring a more comfortable grip.
• Balanced Proportions: The clean and simple lines, combined with a stable and dignified form, align with traditional aesthetics while also fitting seamlessly into modern tea settings, making it ideal for daily use and formal tea gatherings.

This Handwritten Poetry Tall Footed Teacup is more than just a practical tea vessel—it is an artistic expression of cultural refinement. It transforms tea-drinking into a harmonious fusion of mindfulness and aesthetics, bringing an air of elegance to any tea session.

This Heat-Resistant Gaopeng glass tasting cup features an exquisite and unique design, with a crystal-clear and radiant appearance that embodies artistic beauty. The cup body is rounded and full, resembling a blooming flower bud, with smooth and elegant lines that enhance its refined aesthetic. The base adopts a hollow six-petal design, reminiscent of a lotus in bloom, adding a touch of oriental charm while ensuring stability.

Design Highlights:

• Gaopeng Glass Material: Exceptionally clear and highly heat-resistant, capable of withstanding high-temperature brewing, making it ideal for tasting various types of tea.
• Streamlined Cup Body: The rounded, slightly inward-curving walls help to retain the tea’s aroma, enriching the tasting experience.
• Lotus-Inspired Base: Intricately carved, the petal-shaped base provides both enhanced stability and artistic appeal.
• Lightweight & Comfortable Grip: The cup is well-balanced, offering a comfortable grip for prolonged tea appreciation.

With its elegant and refined design, this tasting cup seamlessly blends the purity of glass with the traditional charm of Chinese tea ware. Whether used for green tea, white tea, or floral teas, it brings out the best in tea color and flavor, adding a sophisticated touch to any tea session.

This 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.

This handmade celadon chicken heart cup features a beautiful blue glaze that is created through the kiln altered baking process. During this process, the temperature and atmosphere inside the kiln are carefully controlled to produce variations in colour and texture on the surface of the pottery.

The resulting blue glaze on this cup is a stunning example of the unique and unpredictable effects that can be achieved through this ancient technique. The subtle variations in shade and texture give the cup a natural and organic feel, and the delicate chicken heart shape adds a touch of whimsy and charm.

Crafted with meticulous attention to detail, this cup is entirely handmade and one-of-a-kind. Its smooth, rounded shape feels comfortable in the hand, and the rich, blue glaze adds depth and dimension to the surface.

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.

This handmade celadon chicken heart cup features a beautiful green glaze that is created through the kiln-altered baking process. During this process, the temperature and atmosphere inside the kiln are carefully controlled to produce variations in colour and texture on the surface of the pottery.

The resulting green glaze on this cup is a stunning example of the unique and unpredictable effects that can be achieved through this ancient technique. The subtle variations in shade and texture give the cup a natural and organic feel, and the delicate chicken heart shape adds a touch of whimsy and charm.

Crafted with meticulous attention to detail, this cup is entirely handmade and one-of-a-kind. Its smooth, rounded shape feels comfortable in the hand, and the rich, green glaze adds depth and dimension to the surface.

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.

This tasting cup is made using the authentic wood fired unglazed technique. Without any applied glaze, the surface develops naturally as wood ash falls, melts, and flows during the high temperature firing, creating rich layers of color. The outer wall shows fire marks of grey black, milky white, brown and ochre, with delicate kiln variations that resemble the calm texture of stone weathered over time.

The most distinctive feature is the bluish green vitrified crystallisation formed inside the cup, reminiscent of pine frost. This cool green tone is created as minerals in the wood ash melt and crystallise under intense heat and a reducing atmosphere. Between the crystals lie natural crackle patterns, glossy and bright, evoking frost on pine branches in winter, serene and vivid.

Parts of the inner surface show a clear vitrified effect. During firing, as the temperature rises, components within the clay and ash gradually melt, forming a glass like glaze layer. Vitrification makes the surface harder and smoother, while enhancing both texture and usability. The essence of wood firing lies in its irreproducibility: flame paths, ash deposits and cooling rhythms together shape the unique character of this cup.

Named Pine Forest, it conveys its cool bluish green tones and the natural elegance of wood fired ware. Rugged yet refined, rustic yet graceful, it holds both artistic beauty and collectible value.