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06/11/2026

Blog on the bottom of the Tao Teaware homepage.

It's taken us a very long time to talk about Yixing...

and here's why. ⤴️

06/07/2026

Part 1 on Qinzhou, Jianshui, and Chaozhou yesterday for the overview of all 4.

New clay teapots and porcelain available on our site.

06/06/2026

Part 2 on Yixing available tomorrow.

Do you have a favorite teapot region from these 4?

For those who are wondering about the average prices:
Qinzhou ~$100
Jianshui ~$150
Chaozhou ~$200
Yixing +$200

These prices are not the only price and you can definitely see variation from this but basically these prices are an average price for a pot that we feel is representative of the regions character.

You can go to Yixing and find a pot for $10 and a pot for $1,000.

We don't think either of those represent the character of what most people will appreciate and be willing to spend money on.

We try to find the cheapest pots we can, that also hold the character and quality of a regions teaware...

That's how we come up with the averages.

Suprisingly in our lazy day adventures to Yixing and Jingdezhen this year, we ended up with a lot of unique cups. Now u...
06/06/2026

Suprisingly in our lazy day adventures to Yixing and Jingdezhen this year, we ended up with a lot of unique cups.

Now up on our website.

06/05/2026

Not every pot in the drop is this light, but there are a lot of them that do feel weightless.

Here are a few:
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All Yixing and Jingdezhen new releases live on the site.

06/04/2026

This is a hard one for us to talk about...

A lot of what we here echoed by people talking about Yixing pots in the West feels like a game of telephone.

Everyone saying the same thing but the why is never really questioned for things that seem like an easy thought process.

Maybe we missed something but these thoughts are from our experience being on the ground sourcing with first hand with answers and routing through information from artists we work with. Definitely, not the only experience but it is first hand and I think more importantly challenged and critiqued with long conversations from potters who aren't selling these pots too(Yixing pots and lore) so they can be a non-biased 3rd party in addition to those potters and producers on the ground in Yixing.

People always talk about Yixing clay, Yixing clay. It's nice and doesn't need to cost a fortune for some cups that feel ...
06/04/2026

People always talk about Yixing clay, Yixing clay.

It's nice and doesn't need to cost a fortune for some cups that feel great in the hand.

Unfortunately, the same can't be said for Yixing teapots(we just dropped 15 on our site) which your going to have to sell your kidney to buy.

But what do you need more a kidney or a teapot that took more hours to make than you work this week?

You know the answer.

06/03/2026

Never thought I'd be sitting here talking about teapot feet but here we are...

Yixing and Jingdezhen drop are available now on our site.

If you're into names, we just dropped 15 new Yixing teapots & a lot of Jingdezhen porcelain.
06/02/2026

If you're into names, we just dropped 15 new Yixing teapots & a lot of Jingdezhen porcelain.

05/26/2026

Sometimes we still miss things which makes me thankful and humbled everyday when we get feedback,
questions,
critique,
and reviews.

We still have to sort through them and find out if the concern matches something we were (or weren't trying to convey) but as they say the customer is always right so we always try to make it right...

even if our policy didn't at the time.

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