Asian ceramics

PORCELAIN GAIWAN

Glazed entirely, white colour.

Volume: ca. 200ml

Gaiwan is one of the most convenient tea brewing vessels. His name is literally a "bowl with a lid", usually complete with a saucer. Its structure makes virtually every stage of making tea extremely simple: sprinkling leaves, pouring water on them, pouring the infusion into cups. For brewing teas that we do not know, just open the lid to control the degree of brewing the leaves. Porcelain glazed gaiwan is a universal dish, it does not absorb odors, you can use it for various types of teas, and use detergents to clean it.

CERAMIC TEACUPS

Hand made, glazed. The glaze in its color is not even, shimmering with shades of green, applied unevenly, on the edges it covers the clay only to a lesser extent, which in effect gives a dark brown colour. The foot of the cup is unglazed in brick-red colour.

Volume: ca. 70ml

Author: Im Man-jae

The teacup was made by the esteemed Korean master of traditional ceramics. The enamel colour is the result of a skillful selection of natural ingredients included in it. The cups were fired in a traditional wood-burning kiln.

CERAMIC TEACUP

Handmade, entirely glazed. The blue coloured glaze has many shades in form of glaze flows occuring during the firing. The shades change from ligh-turquoise at the rim to dark blue at the bottom of the cup.

Volume: 100ml

Ceramic teacup with volume quite typical for japanese green tea cups. The glaze starting to flow during the firing resulting in beautiful and decorative shades of the colour. The cup is dishwasher safe.

CERAMIC TEAPOT

Completely glazed, milky-white, decorated with blue or orange dots. It has a handle located on the side, at a 90-degree angle to the spout.

Volume: ca. 200ml

A small teapot in a form popular in Asia with a handle on the side, completely glazed, making it suitable for all types of tea. It does not have a built-in strainer, so it will be ideal as a teapot to serve the finished infusion. Two versions of decorations are available: with blue or orange dots.

CERAMIC TEACUPS

Hand made, in sand color, completely glazed with transparent glaze. Uneven texture, uneven rim, enamel in the form of drips. Black particles clearly visible in the basic material.

Volume: ca.70ml

Author: Gil Sung, signed

A bowl made by hand by one of the finest Korean ceramists, bearing the title of a living treasure of national culture. Irregular form, uneven texture, enamel taking the form of drips in places, are the features of the Ido style, called "Jeong-ho" in Korea. The uneven, almost rough and careless form of the cup, however, surprises with its lightness and refinement behind the apparent imperfection. A bowl burnt in a traditional wood-burning kiln.

Author: Kim Kyung-jin

Teapot: volume ca. 250ml

Sugu: diameter 18cm

CERAMIC CUP

Handmade, covered in a thick layer of glaze of uneven colour, changing from green and blue-green at the rim, with black fragments, to light-green at the bottom. The bottom of the cup is unglazed, showing the sand-brown colour of the clay.

Volume: ca. 100ml

Handmade cup has visible traces of the authors moves. The volume is quite standard for a japanese green tea cup. The light-green colour of the glazing suits the tea very well.