Small blue-and-white porcelain travel teapot (immortals' peach motif)
✦ Naturally low in caffeine, enjoyed from morning to night
A travel tea set, €55.
A small teapot, two cups and their pouch — tea in a compact version, everywhere with you.
Even smaller than our first travel set, this one slips into a bag pocket. A small blue-and-white porcelain pouring teapot, two cups of different sizes, a cloth, and a soft pouch that protects the whole. Everything you need to brew a real tea gong fu cha style at the office, on the train or on a walk, in the smallest possible footprint.
White porcelain with blue-and-white decor, peony and chrysanthemum flowers hand-painted. On each piece, a medallion of fruit painted in orange tones and a cartouche of Chinese calligraphy. The edges are underlined with a fine golden trim. The lid, pierced, holds back the leaves when pouring.
Why this small teapot
The most compact format. A small pouring teapot, two cups, and everything fits in a pouch that sits in the hand. It is the take-along set par excellence: small enough never to be left at home, complete enough to brew tea properly, in short, successive infusions.
Blue and white, hand-painted. The floral decor, the fruit medallion and the calligraphy are hand-painted, piece by piece. Blue and white — qinghua in the Chinese tradition — is here lifted with orange touches and a golden trim. No two sets are ever quite identical.
A clever pourer. The lid is pierced: it acts as a filter and holds back the leaves when you tilt the teapot to serve. No need for a ball or a strainer, the gesture is direct and clean.
What's in the pouch
| Teapot | 1 small porcelain pouring teapot, pierced filter lid |
| Cups | 2 cups of different sizes (one large, one small) |
| Cloth | 1 fabric tea cloth |
| Pouch | 1 soft carrying pouch, transparent, zipped, with wrist strap |
| Decor | Blue-and-white floral, painted fruit medallion, calligraphed cartouche, gold trim |
First use and everyday
Before first use. Rinse the teapot and cups with clear water, then scald them once with boiling water. This is also the gesture that opens each session: a little hot water in the teapot and cups to warm them before brewing.
Brewing the tea. Place the leaves in the teapot, pour water at the temperature suited to the chosen tea, let it steep for a few moments, then tilt: the pierced lid holds back the leaves and the liquor flows into the cups. The small capacity invites short, repeated infusions, lengthening a little with each round.
On the road. Let each piece dry well before putting it away. The cloth is used to wipe and to cushion within the pouch. Once zipped, the pouch protects the porcelain and fits in a bag pocket.
Care
Wash by hand, in lukewarm water, without harsh detergent: clear water is most often enough, and preserves both the porcelain and the painted decor. Avoid the dishwasher, the microwave and abrupt thermal shocks. Dry each piece before putting it away. Over time, the porcelain keeps the memory of the teas you brew in it: this is what gives a fine object its patina.
Characteristics
| Material | Blue-and-white porcelain, hand-painted |
| Contents | 1 teapot, 2 cups (different sizes), 1 cloth, 1 soft pouch |
| Teapot capacity | ≈ 120 ml |
| Cup capacity | ≈ 40 ml and ≈ 25 ml |
| Pouch | ≈ 11 × 11 × 8 cm |
| Total weight | ≈ 0.5 kg |
| Care | Hand-wash, lukewarm water |
Who this teapot is for
For those who want the lightest possible tea set: a pocket format for the office, the train, hiking or travel.
For those who love blue and white and the delicacy of hand-painted porcelain, without bulk.
And for those looking for the right little gift: a carefully made, complete object that you can give without hesitation.
To go further
To make the most of your teapot, discover how to prepare tea gong fu cha style, and browse our Yunnan teas to brew in it.
Tea pressed by hand, as it was a thousand years ago
Qiao has been making tea for thirty years. By hand, following the old ways, she presses each cake herself on a stone mill, a craft handed down for more than a thousand years and today listed as intangible cultural heritage.
Our tea trees, some several centuries old, grow above 1,800 metres: we call them the "old immortals." Their leaves are fixed by hand in great woks heated over a wood fire, then rolled. Six months a year, we are there, at every step.
