The Jingdezhen magpie china tea set

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The Yixing green and black tea set

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The Jingdezhen man fishing tea set

Every day, visitors from around the world flock to museums to see some of the most beautiful porcelain the world has ever known.

Few, however, realize that many china tea set collections come from a small, rarely visited town called Jingdezhen.

Excavations show that the earliest pure china tea sets were made in Jingdezhen. Artisans started making porcelain items here over 1,700 years ago, when much of the rest of the world was only making bland pottery vessels.

People quickly found porcelain Chinese tea sets to be much more beautiful, more valuable, and more durable than older kinds of pottery.

The Yixing dragon and lion teapot

They mold ceramic clay into every possible form: plants, fruits, animals, people, and even abstract designs. Their sophistication and creativity is something that cannot be copied anywhere in the world.

The Yixing monkey teapot

The exceptional tradition of Yixing china tea sets began long, long ago. Recent excavations show that people in Yixing began to make pottery almost 7, 000 years ago, even earlier than the Egyptians.

So the techniques used today have been perfected over thousands of years and artisans in Yixing produce some of the best Chinese tea sets available.

Today the largest ceramic museum in China, and maybe the world, stands in Yixing. There you can see all kinds of precious Yixing teapots made in this interesting little town.

Some of these china tea sets are massive and date back so far that the original shapes have been weathered and changed into new, strange objects.