The remarkable tea connoisseur Emperor Song Huizhong regarded this tea bowl style as the best among all tea bowls. He emphasised on the importance of rabbit hair glaze pattern which can accentuate the tea and foam color.
 
It is made of clay from Jian Yang of Fujian which contains iron ore. The Jian Kiln started almost 1000 years ago. Jian teawares are famous for its high density with strong structure which gives high pitch metallic voice when crashed. The thick and dense structure of the teawares can keep the warmth of the tea and hence give long-lasting foam.
 
The original oil droplets Jien teawares passed from Song China to Japan which attracted Japanese as they thought that the pattern is mysterious like a starry galaxy and praised it as “universe in a bowl”. Staring at the tea bowl is like looking at the starry night at seaside, feeling the vastness of the universe.
 
It is said that each Jian teaware is unique as there can never be any identical Jian teaware in the world as the chemical reaction inside the kiln is highly dynamic which give different patterns and colors.
 
Dimensions (cm)：12.5 X 7.5
Volume：About 360ml
Origin: Jian Yang, Fujian, China
 
選用福建建陽的富含鐵礦的黏土製成，建盞始燒於五代末北宋初年，建盞胎骨厚實堅硬，叩之有金屬聲，俗稱“鐵胎”，手感厚重，利於茶湯保溫；深邃的顏色能彰顯出茶湯的泡沫與顏色。
 
原本的曜變天目茶碗乃南宋的傳世孤品，後流傳到了日本。日本人非常喜愛這一來自中華的古物，更覺得裏面神奇的曜變圖案神妙莫測，便用“碗中宇宙”以讚美該碗。此碗因自然窯變而產生的紋樣，令人置身於深夜的大海邊望見了璀璨萬端的星空，而那星空中則深藏了萬千奧秘，宛若浩淼宇宙。
 
全宇宙沒有兩隻完全可以相同的建盞。每一隻建盞，即使材料和步驟相同，但入窯之後，出來的建盞還是不會有相同的。
 
窯內溫度和氣氛的微妙差別，都可能導致不同的釉色。兔毫釉、油滴斑，亦或是烏金釉和雜色釉，都是獨立的個體，各自綻放光芒。
 
呎寸(cm)：12.5 X 7.5
容量：約360ml
產地：中國福建建陽