Umi Tea Sets Blog

* Loop handle teapot, Jiajing Period in Ming Dynasty, unearthed in the eunuch Wu Jing's tomb at Majiashan outside of Zhonghua gate in Nanjing. This pot is the earliest purple...

Main Teaware Tea tray: A tray for holding or carrying utensils used in serving tea. It protects the tea table from getting burnt or wet. Teapot: A utensil for steeping...

In searching for artistic models, the majority of American ceramists explore the vast heritage of art with the understanding that artistic perfection can be found in any time period and...

Among the consequences of the information age is the abundance of resources available to all, making our time one of the most phenomenal periods ever of intercultural growth. Greater accessibility...

By William R. Sargent Decorative arts from China, present in households in Europe and in America since the early seventeenth century, have long exerted influences on the arts produced by...

My introduction to Yixing ware came in 1981 during my time in graduate school. On a visit to Rochester, new York, I saw the collection of Marguerite Antell. The teapots...

Located on Great Lake (Taihu), across from Suzhou and within the "Golden Triangle," is Yixing. When many of the most renowned scholars flocked to this area in the late sixteenth...

In Yuan Dynasty, tea took the necessary position in peopled daily life, and there was a fashion, "weak up in the moring, there must be seven things you should do...

We can know about the tea-drinking customs and teawares in Liao Dynasty from the grave chambers' fresco paintings at Xuanhua Period (155-1-155-7) According to the grave chambers, fresco paintings at...

The Song Dynasty (960-1279) followed Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in China. The period is divided into the Northern Song (960-1127) in which the Song controlled both Northern and Southern...

Drinking tea was the major event in common life of ordinary people at Late-Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties. The teahouse where people often went to take the rest and actions...

Tea-drinking customs in Tang Dynasty concluded rude tea, loose tea, dust tea cake. Rude tea should be shreded, loose tea should be fire dry, dust tea should be baked, tea...