Delight your guests with this tea set in original Yixing-quality, consisting of a teapot and three matching teacups. The versatile teapot made from Zisha clay or "purple clay" is suited for everyday use and for all teas. The Tea Set also features a small, authentic bamboo tea tray or "tea boat", an indispensable part of the chinese tea ceremony Gong Fu Cha. This includes the bamboo pliers: These pliers serve for safe touching, lifting and moving of drinking bowls and smelling cups or of the lid of the teapot as these parts can heat up by the hot water. 

Yixing clay is a type of clay from the region near the city of Yixing in Jiangsu province, China. The finished stoneware, which is used for teaware and other small items, are usually red or brown in color. They are known as Zisha ware, and are typically unglazed. Zisha clay has excellent porosity and heat handling properties that significantly improves the taste of tea when compared to tea made in glass, porcelain or glazed teapots. 

Chinese clay teapots do not use glazing. The clay used remains porous and tea oils are intended to build up inside the teapot and over time, smooth the taste of tea and improve it by adding its own unique “taste” from the accumulated oils. Different teas are not made in the same teapot unless they are from the same family or class of teas, such as different types of green or oolongs, but even this is not ideal as some teas from the same family have a strong flavour and in time, their taste can transfer to a more delicately flavoured tea.