Umi Tea Sets Blog

Piping hot aromatic tea sparkling inside a glass tea set can be an enchanting sight for any tea lover. Beautiful and elegant, the glass tea set's visual appeal and translucent...

Pao-the Han, a Taiwanese architectural scholar, He wrote a book, named "Beauty starts with a teacup". Since then, we know that understanding and discovering beauty can also begin with the...

A Japanese tea set comprises more than just tools. It reflects years of tradition and craftsmanship. Each piece is carefully crafted using antiquated techniques. [Since clay or porcelain help improve the taste of...

There are various categories of Chinese tea sets. Being of elegant styles, practical use and artistic value, they are well-known around the world and favored by tea lovers throughout history....

* 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...