Tea and porcelain team up in Chinese tea dust glaze wares
Antiques & Collecting Terry and Kim Kovel The richly colored glazes of Chinese porcelains have enthralled collectors and inspired artists for hundreds of years. They are often given descriptive names, like the dark red “sang de boeuf” or “oxblood”; the famous peachbloom that inspired the late Victorian craze for two-tone pink glass; or the speckled olive shade called tea dust. Tea dust glaze was first used in the Tang dynasty (618-906). It may not be a coincidence that Chinese “tea culture” emerged in the same era, although tea plants had been cultivated in China and the ...
