Taiwan
Yingge ceramics, Miaoli and wood-fired stoneware, rock-mineral clays, and the Taiwanese chayi table
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Learn 5#
- 臺灣工夫茶與茶藝茶器Taiwanese gongfu tea and tea-art teawareA Taiwanese tea-art table brings together brewing, sharing and smelling tea. Begin with the pitcher and aroma cup, then explore the movement, workshops and sometimes conflicting accounts of when these practices took shape.sources cited
- 宜兴之外的四大陶壶传统：潮州手拉壶、建水紫陶、钦州坭兴陶与台湾陶壶Four other clay teapot traditions: Chaozhou, Jianshui, Qinzhou and TaiwanNot every unglazed teapot is made like a Yixing pot. Compare how Chaozhou, Jianshui, Qinzhou and Taiwanese workshops prepare, form and finish their vessels before exploring the materials in detail.sources cited
- 盖碗、品茗杯与公道杯：茶席上的瓷器组合Gaiwan, cups and pitcher: the porcelain side of the tea tableA gaiwan can be a personal drinking bowl or a shared brewing vessel. Begin with those two uses, then see how cups and a pouring pitcher fit around it and how the arrangement changed over time.sources cited
- 冲泡之前：烧水壶、炉与泡茶壶Before the infusion: kettle, brazier and brewing potLook beneath the round kettle in Chen Ching-liang’s illustrated set: a separate stove supports it. The pair makes an easily missed part of tea preparation visible. Before water reaches leaves in a brewing vessel, another vessel heats it. These Taiwanese examples show how that job shapes the handle, lid and openings.sources cited
- 读懂修补：锔钉、漆与器物的后来经历Reading repairs: staples, lacquer and a vessel’s later lifeLook under the lid before deciding how much of a pot’s history you can see. Two photographs of one repaired teapot reveal more than the assembled outline: the underside exposes work that the outside largely conceals. Start there, then learn to distinguish metal bridges, lacquer repairs, glaze crackle and deliberate decoration.sources cited
Clays 1#
Shapes 13#
- 側把壺Side-handle potA teapot with a handle projecting from the side, roughly at a right angle to the spout. In Taiwanese studio teaware this arrangement appears on several body shapes. Compare it with the Japanese side-handled kyūsu, while keeping the maker, place and intended use of each example distinct.sources cited
- 茶船Tea boatA shallow basin that holds the teapot (and sometimes the cups) in gongfu tea and catches the hot water poured over them. The National Palace Museum shows a Qing blue-and-white basin (茶池) and says it is also called a tea boat; in Taiwan the small pot, four cups and a tea boat made up the everyday set later nicknamed 'old men's tea'.sources cited
- 柴燒壺Wood-fired teapotA teapot described by its wood-firing process rather than one fixed silhouette. In exposed firing, flame and deposited wood ash can mark the surface or form a natural glaze. Taiwanese studio examples vary with the clay, kiln position, firing schedule and maker.sources cited
- 茶盤Tea trayThe tray that carries the whole gongfu set. In Taiwan, rectangular trays of metal, wood or bamboo, some with drainage, were popular in the 1970s and 1980s and spread to mainland China in the 1990s; by the 2010s many Taiwanese practitioners had replaced them with a shallow pot stand (壺承).sources cited
- 壺承Pot standA shallow dish or stand for the teapot that holds only a little water. An anthropologist records that by about 2014 many Taiwanese tea practitioners had swapped the large drained tea tray for a pot stand, promoted by senior tea figures as simpler and cleaner.sources cited
- 梨形壶Pear-shaped potA pear-shaped teapot is fullest low on its body, then narrows towards the mouth. Seen from the side, the changing curve of the shoulder gives the form its name.sources cited
- 孟臣罐Mengchen potA name for the small teapot of gongfu tea rather than one fixed shape. The Hong Kong Museum of Tea Ware notes that the bases of such pots mostly carry the name of Hui Mengchen (others carry Hui Yigong or Siting), so gongfu pots came to be called Mengchen pots; most are pear-shaped. A Chaozhou draft standard calls the brewing pot 朱泥壶（孟臣壶）and gives 90–150 mL, ideally 110 mL.sources cited
- 公道杯Fair pitcherA pouring vessel that receives brewed tea before it is divided among cups. Handleless, rear-handled and side-handled versions offer different ways to hold and pour it.sources cited
- 水平壶ShuipingA small teapot with a flat-round, lantern-like body and a straight, sword-like spout, popular in Guangdong, Fujian and Southeast Asia for gongfu tea. It is made in Yixing and is one of the common shapes of Fengxi (Chaozhou) hand-thrown pots.sources cited
- 聞香杯Aroma cupA tall cup used in Taiwanese double-cup tasting. Tea is poured into it and then transferred to a drinking cup; the warm, emptied aroma cup is smelled. Research on Taiwan’s tea-art movement documents this practice in the 1980s. 張靜紅 2016sources cited
- 巨轮珠壶JulunzhuA compact, thick-rimmed globular or slightly oblate gongfu teapot with a short, straight cannon-barrel spout ('fat tube spout'), a thick round loop handle, and a flat or slightly domed inset lid topped with a flattened bead knob. Made in Yixing zhuni/zini, Chaozhou Fengxi red clay, and post-war Nantou kilns, and exported to Japan during the late Qing and Meiji–Taishō periods where Senchadō practitioners prized its bold, unpretentious geometry.sources cited
- 飄逸杯Piaoyi cupTea steeps in the upper chamber. Press the release to drain the tea into the pitcher below while the leaves stay above.sources cited
- 茶仓Tea-storage jarStart with the lid and the opening beneath it. A tea-storage jar holds leaves between uses; its shape belongs to the act of keeping tea, rather than pouring an infusion. Documented Taiwanese examples range from small containers taken out for tea to larger jars kept for storage.sources cited
Wares 4#
- 苗栗陶瓷Miaoli ceramicsMiaoli is a ceramics region in Taiwan whose teaware includes twentieth-century pots and contemporary studio work. Its history involves changing kiln technologies and makers, rather than one uniform clay or style.draft
- 南投陶Nantou potteryPottery from Nantou County in central Taiwan.draft
- 臺灣柴燒Taiwanese wood-fired ceramicsTaiwanese chaishao teaware is made through wood firing, which can leave ash deposits and flame markings on the surface. The term describes a firing practice, not a single clay. Contemporary studio work should be distinguished from the longer history of wood-fired pottery in Taiwan.draft
- 鶯歌陶瓷Yingge ceramicsCeramics from Yingge in New Taipei City, Taiwan.draft
Makers 2#
- 吳茂成Wu MaochengWu Maocheng made small red-clay teapots at the Dongyang Pottery Factory in Banshan, Nantou. He opened the workshop in 1948 after working as a potter at the Xiede factory.sources cited
- 陈景亮Chen Ching-liangLook at the tall rattan handle and round side opening of the tea-roasting vessel attributed to Chen Ching-liang in Taiwan Tea Ware. This Taiwanese maker can be approached through two different objects: one adapted to handling dry leaves, the other catalogued by a museum as a sculptural ceramic teapot.sources cited