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Tasting Cups

Traditional Chinese tea tasting cups are much smaller than Western mugs; this encourages smaller sips, which guide your attention to the flavor and nuance of your tea.
  • Side view of a pair of white porcelain teacups, with a ring of blue painted around the rim.
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    Ming Tasting Cups

    $18.00

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    Ming Tasting Cups

    Side view of a pair of white porcelain teacups, with a ring of blue painted around the rim.
    Side view of a pair of white porcelain teacups, with a ring of blue painted around the rim.
    A pair of white teacups, with a glass server filled with tea and a gaiwan in the background.
    Side view of a pair of white teacups with a blue ring around the rim, each filled with tea. A glass server filled with tea and a gaiwan are out of focus in the background.
    Bottom of a white porcelain teacup, with a Red Blossom Tea Company logo etched into the base.
    Ten white porcelain cups with a blue ring around the lip arranged in a pattern on a white background.

    $18.00

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    A modern interpretation of traditional Ming Dynasty blue-and-white porcelain, our Ming Tasting Cups are crafted in Dehua, Fujian from paper-thin white porcelain and finished with a hand-painted cerulean rim line. The... →


  • Side-view of a terracotta-colored teacup.
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    Yixing Tasting Cup

    $5.00

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    Yixing Tasting Cup

    Side-view of a terracotta-colored teacup.
    Side-view of a terracotta-colored teacup.
    View of the inside of a teacup, the inside is white and the outside is terracotta-colored.
    The bottom of a terracotta-colored teacup, with a maker's mark stamped into the foot.
    Two teacups, terracotta-colored on the outside, white on the inside. A teapot and a pitcher full of tea are out of focus in the background.

    $5.00

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    These are our shop cups, used for all the tastings that we conduct day in and day out. They're pretty basic: crafted of yixing clay, then given a pure white glaze on the inside. For use with your own gong fu cha preparation.

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  • Side view of a pair of blue-green celadon teacup, designed to look like a lotus flower.
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    Ru Kiln Lotus Cup Pair (Large)

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    Ru Kiln Lotus Cup Pair (Large)

    Side view of a pair of blue-green celadon teacup, designed to look like a lotus flower.
    Side view of a pair of blue-green celadon teacup, designed to look like a lotus flower.
    Side view of a blue-green celadon teacup. The outside has slight grooves in it to look like a lotus flower.
    Top down view of a blue-green celadon teacup. The lip has slight indentations from the grooves on the outside.
    The bottom of a blue-green celadon cup. Xu De Jia's maker's mark is painted on the foot in dark blue.

    $90.00

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    Part of our Song Kiln Collection, this pair of cups is inspired by the celadon ware of the Song Dynasty's Imperial Ru Kiln.

    Stately and refined in form, these lotus-motif cups were crafted by nationally acclaimed Taiwanese master ceramicist, Xu De Jia. Sold as... →


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