Umi Tea Sets Blog

Inscription of Tung King Shun Factory, in Weihaiwei On Purple Clay Teapots

August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets

Weihaiwei, is located at southeast of Shangtung Peninsula,south to Yellow Sea,it was a fishing village in ancient times. It was named as "Shi Luo" in Han Dynasty, named "Qingquan Chuan"...

Inscriptions of Made by Zhening Yucheng Kilns On Purple Clay Teapots

August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets

The Exquisite Records of Yixing Teapots published by Taiwan National Museum of History, with an inscription of "made by Zhening Yucheng kilns" the book considered the Zhening Yucheng kilns as...

ARY. DE. MILDE, Galloping Inscription On Purple Clay Teapots

August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets

This one was used in imitations of Yixing teapots of The Holland during the late-17th century and early-18th century . In the 17th century, accompanied with the prevalent of tea-trade...

Inscriptions of "Mansheng Inscribes", "Pengnian", "Amantuo Studio" On Purple Clay Teapots

August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets

Chen Hongshou(1768 - 1822), surname is Zigong, called as Mansheng or Mangong, Gongshou, Plant Elm Old Holy Man, Taoist priest, he was born in Qiantang. To be an official magistrate...

Inscription of Purple Clay Teapots in QianLong Period

August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets

Because the favor of tea-drinking for Emperor QianLong, lots of places made purple clay teapots as articles of tribute, lots of them are requisite and rich changes in decorations. In...

Inscription of "made during the QianLong period, Qing Dynasty" on Purple Clay Teapots

August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets

The purple clay teapots sent into royal court during the middle and late- Qing Dynasty. Because of the Emperor Kangxi focus on enamel colored porcelain with great passions, to make...

Hui Mengchen's Purple Clay Teapots Inscription and Its Imitations

August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets

Hui Mengchen is a very important potter in history of Yixing Zisha teapots. Especially in southern Fujian, people drunk tea with Mengchen pot mostly, and Chaozhou people drunk the Kongfu...

Inscriptions of "Made by Jingxi Hua Fengxiang" on Purple Clay Teapots

August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets

Jingxi, sit at south of Yixing, called for it is next to the Jiangnan Mountain, this one is the name of place, A famous scholar named Zhang Dai visited tea...

Chinese Tea Art - Tea Sets

August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets

As the old Chinese idiom goes, "it is necessary to have effective tools to do good work." It refers to ordinary labor and creations. As a material activity, tea art...

Inscriptions of "Chen Mingyuan" on Purple Clay Teapots

August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets

From Shunzhi Period to the early-Kangxi Period, the development of Yixing Zisha was at a low ebb. The potters at this time were no any records on the historical documents....

Inscriptions of "Kangxi Drive Makes" on Purple Clay Teapots

August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets

The three periods of Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong in early-Qing Dynasty were the golden age of developments of Qing Dynasty. Regions south of the Yangtze River at this time, economic was...

Inscriptions of Shi Dabin Purple Clay Teapots and Fakements

August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets

The inscriptions of purple clay teapots, as same as the modelling of purple clay teapots, later generation always imitate the predecessors. We could not tell the style characters apart of...