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 Yan’s tiny teapots are perfectly proportioned for this style of tea making. This stoneware thrown piece is glazed in a pale grey, translucent enough to allow specks of iron-rich grog to bloom through to the surface of the form. These freckles, or beauty marks, have an echo of the pot’s overall shape, round and ebullient; poised and ready to pour your next cup of tea.

Zhang Hao Yan's teapots are one of a kind.

Usage and care: To wash, simply rinse between uses or hand scrub. We do not recommend use of detergent.