Jingdezhen Gaiwan Teacup, Single Piece, High-End "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" Blue and White Porcelain (Three Part Gaiwan)

Jingdezhen Gaiwan Teacup, Single Piece, High-End "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"  Blue and White Porcelain Sancai Bowl, Kung Fu Tea Brewer 

When James, a tea enthusiast from New York, first unwrapped the Jingdezhen blue and white gaiwan, he thought it was a tiny "painting scroll". The lid, bowl, and saucer—three pieces like a mini stage—were covered with a landscape that seemed to stretch endlessly: misty mountains curled like dragons, rivers meandered like silver ribbons, and tiny pavilions hid among green trees, all painted in classic blue and white, as if a masterpiece from ancient China had shrunk into his palm.

He didn’t know that this "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" design traces back to a famous Song Dynasty scroll. But in Jingdezhen, the "Porcelain Capital" of China, craftsmen spent months bringing it to life on porcelain. First, they shaped the clay into the gaiwan’s three parts, letting them dry under the Jiangxi sun. Then, a master painter used cobalt ore powder to sketch the mountains and rivers, stroke by stroke, just like an artist painting on silk. After that, the gaiwan was glazed and fired in a kiln at over 1300°C—only then did the blue hues turn vivid, the white porcelain turn translucent, and the landscape gain a timeless glow.

One afternoon, James hosted a tea party. When he lifted the lid of the gaiwan to brew a batch of Longjing tea, his friends gasped. The steam curled up, and for a moment, the blue mountains on the gaiwan seemed to wake up, as if the rivers and forests were breathing. “It’s like drinking tea while traveling through a Chinese landscape painting!” one friend exclaimed.

What James loves most is that this gaiwan is more than a tea tool—it’s a bridge. Every time he brews tea, he’s not just making a drink, but sharing a piece of China’s 1,000-year porcelain history, a story of craftsmanship, and the serene beauty of Oriental aesthetics. Now, whenever his foreign friends ask about Chinese tea culture, he always brings out this Jingdezhen gaiwan, and says with a smile: “Let the mountains and rivers in the cup tell you the rest.”

Three-Part Gaiwan

Three-Part Gaiwan (representing heaven, earth, and humanity in traditional Chinese culture)”。