There are various categories of Chinese tea sets. Being of elegant styles, practical use and artistic value, they are well-known around the world and favored by tea lovers throughout history. In the developmental history of tea drinking in China, both tea drinking customs and tea production methods have gone through many changes.

Porcelain tea sets in Chinese unique style base its contents on auspicious patterns, traditional tales and folklores, surname culture, poetry, novel stories, etc. With exquisite porcelain making technology in different stages in history, the Jingdezhen porcelain body will be made into blue-and-white, rice-pattern, family-rose, color-glazed porcelains. The fine tea sets embody the cultural richness and the broad history that spans more than 5000 millennia. They are high-class products in terms of quality, style, making technology as well as aesthetic value, which well demonstrate the perfect combination of practical use, cultural value and artistic value.

In ancient China, various kinds of famous porcelain tea sets can be found, including celadon tea sets, white porcelain tea sets, black porcelain tea sets and faience tea sets. These tea sets have been on the most glorious pages in the development history of tea culture in China.

Using traditional Chinese tea set can help adjust your body physically and mentally. When left alone drinking tea, no disturbance there, you can easily calm down and focus your mind on the tea. At that time, you will also find your emotion sublimate with the rising tea aroma. The fragrance of its aroma, the sweetness of its taste, the liquidness of tea, the imagination of its style, the changes of its color, the catchiness of its name, the legendary stories behind it , all of these will give you pleasant thoughts and enjoyment.

Since the 17th century, Chinese tea and Chinese tea sets have been sold to European markets in a large quantity. Together with the increasing needs for tea drinking, the demand for tea sets was increasing by a large margin. Due to the fact that the unparalleled advantages of porcelain tea sets were favored by Europeans, porcelain tea sets and purple-clay tea sets made in the three important historical periods ruled by Emperor Kang Xi, Yong Zheng, and Qian Long respectively have been sold overseas in a large sum. These tea sets have been serving as the bridge for economic and cultural exchanges between China and Europe.

We offer a wide variety of Chinese tea sets in this section. A Chinese tea set is consisting of a tea pot and tea cups used to serve tea. Our China tea sets are known for its beauty and artistry. All the set is made from porcelain or ceramic. Tea consumption equals the consumption of alcohol, coffee, soft drinks, and chocolate put together making it the second most commonly consumed drink in the world after water. Bone China tea sets will bring you the experience of drinking tea in traditional Chinese way. Chinese tea sets which is great gifts for friends and families, also look great on your shelf or desk, simply search through the website to find the Chinese tea set you like.

Different Types Of Chinese Tea Sets

China, Chinaware or porcelain sets is named after China, it is a representation of the Chinese civilization. It is perfectly designed to go with the representation of the Chinese civilization it complements, tea. With the spread of tea across the world, porcelain tea sets became popular both at home and abroad.

Porcelain tea sets can be divided into white porcelain tea sets, celadon tea sets, black porcelain tea sets, and painted porcelain tea sets.

1. White Porcelain Tea Sets

This type of tea sets usually has a compact porcelain body and good diaphaneity, a delicacy of structure. The white glaze of the tea sets reflects color of the tea liquor. It is moderately good at conducting and preserving heat, and is suitable for lowing different types of teas. Early in the Yuan Dynasty, the white porcelain tea sets made in Jingdezhen of Jiangxi Province was already being exported overseas. Today, they have become most widely used by tea enthusiasts.

2. Celadon Tea Sets

This type of tea sets has a fine,smooth porcelain body, and is both elegant and graceful in appearance. The clear, bright jade-colored glaze makes Celadon tea sets particularly suitable for appreciating the color of green tea liquor. Celadon tea sets with a pure color and good diaphaneity have been produced since early in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, the Longquan celadon tea sets made in Zhejiang Province had its heyday, and was popular at home and abroad. In the Ming Dynasty, the crafts and techniques adopted in making celadon tea sets became even more delicate.

3. Black Porcelain Tea Sets

Black porcelain tea cups made in the Jian kiln were famous for the unique recipe, when pouring tea liquor into the teacup, it reflect colorful light spots, adding more fun to the tea spotting game.

4. Painted Porcelain Tea Sets

This type of tea sets, decorated with paintings on the body, is colorful in appearance and diverse in style. The blue and white painted porcelain tea sets is well known at home and abroad, it uses cobalt oxide as the color generator to paint different patterns on the porcelain body, and after that a layer of transparent glaze covers the entire body. The tea sets is then fired in a kiln at a temperature of 1300℃ ware.