Tea sets in the Ming and Qing dynasty
    As the loose tea drinking was very popular at Ming and Qing dynasty, the utensils like teapot, cup and covered bowl became the main tea set at that time.
    Porcelain tea sets were still used extensively, the white and blue and relative color tea sets had reached their height of splendor in the Emperors Kang Xi, Yong Zheng and Qian Long's reign, especially, the emerge of color glaze-pink and enamel made the tea set more exquisite and noble.
    With the flourishing of loose tea, the purple clay tea set became the most popular tea-drinking utensil, beside the growing technology of making tea pot, the involvement of poet and literator added tea set a lot of culture characteristic. Also, at that time, the tin pots were used by more and more people for it art characteristic. This also made a lot of famous pot-makers at that time.