{"product_id":"ash-glazed-teapot","title":"River","description":"\u003cp\u003eGong fu, or dry-style tea preparation, is an integral component of the Song Tea service, orchestrated with the smallest brewing vessels. The scale of these teapots allows for highly concentrated brews, highlighting the epitomes of flavor and character through each successive steep. These are pots designed for ritual, intended to be filled again and again with near-boiling water and decanted, shared, and savored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZhang Hao Yen’s latest collection of tiny teapots are perfectly proportioned for this style of tea making. Thrown from dark stoneware clay, the artist achieves the same qualities of wood fired ceramics on the exterior of this piece by mixing ash into his glaze. You can find evidence of this in the organic striations and light crazing on the surface of the form, keeping the eye roving across this this classically proportioned pot. The interior of the vessel in unglazed, yet remains fully water tight and non-porous due to its high firing temperature in a gas kiln.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis teapot is one of a kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsage and care: To wash, simply rinse between uses or hand scrub. We do not recommend use of detergent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Song Tea","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52976383295701,"sku":"zhy-0004-2026","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1728\/6899\/files\/tp4_1.jpg?v=1767937709","url":"https:\/\/songtea.mom\/products\/ash-glazed-teapot","provider":"Song Tea \u0026 Ceramics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}