Squat Pear

Gong fu, or dry-style tea preparation, is an integral component of the Song Tea service, orchestrated with the smallest brewing vessels. The scale of these teapots allows for highly concentrated brews, highlighting the epitomes of flavor and character through each successive steep. These are pots designed for ritual, intended to be filled again and again with near-boiling water and decanted, shared, and savored. Zhang Hao Yen’s latest collection of tiny teapots are perfectly proportioned for this style of tea making. Thrown from dark stoneware clay, the artist achieves the same qualities of wood fired ceramics on the exterior of this piece by mixing ash into his glaze. You can find evidence of this in the organic striations and blushes of iron spotting on the form, keeping the eye roving across this this classically proportioned pot. This teapot is one of a kind. Usage and care: To wash, simply rinse between uses or hand scrub. We do not recommend use of detergent.