Umi Tea Sets Blog

According to the Taoist School, human and nature are unified. A person is a small world, and a cup of tea reflects the sea. Tea ceremony has assimilated this thought....

The cylinder vessels appeared in the traditional ceramics was early, but it was unfrequent. The cylinder shape in round shape of purple clay teapots became fashion in the mid-Qing Dynasty....

It had appeared in the Neolithic Age, most were pottery alms bowls with convergent mouth, semisphere belly and round bottom. The Hongzhou kilns in Northern Dynasty appeared the green glaze...

The shape of Zisha teapot can be divided into sphere, square, natural, rib pattern, new shape wares. The round also can be divided into sphere, hemisphere, cylindrical, sphere variation, etc....

Preface History is a mirror. So-called "mirror" means the historian want to know about the "active action", it is also means what we had been doing in the past, just...

In the south of China in Late-Ming Dynasty, the agriculture, handicraft industry were flourishing day by day. The developments of productive forces formed an active commodity circulation so that the...

Elizabeth Kolsky WHAT COULD BE MORE QUINTESSENTIALLY ENGLISH than a cup of sweet tea? At any fine London hotel, one can delight in the pleasures of high tea, a decadent...

John E. Wills Jr. IN 1793 GEORGE LORD MACARTNEY, ambassador of His Majesty George III to the Qianlong Emperor of Great Qing, was received in a splendid ceremony at the...

Beatrice Hohenegger A TEAPOT DECORATED WITH A WARTIME IMAGE of a city in flames is highly unusual Susan Thayer's Opium Wars Teapot (fig. 1v.1), however, proves to be a compelling...

Jane T. Merritt THE BOSTON TEA PARTY holds a revered place in the history of the American Revolution and is often cited as key to our political independence and emerging...

Barbara G. Carson BEFORE BRITISH TAXATION EFFORTS and the American Revolution politicized tea, the acquisition of new domestic equipment for serving this hot beverage and the display of genteel behavior...

Woodruff D. Smith IN THE EUROPEAN WORLD, talking tea in company at home or In certain kinds of public establishments has long been identified as a particularly middle-class thing to...