The Chinese porcelain is a ware derivate from ceramics. The most skilled potters have taken the idea further and they tried different combinations of material in order to obtain a new type of mixture. For five centuries between 16th and 11th century BC, the artisans took time to make the perfect combination. The Chinese porcelain contained kaolin, pottery stone or petunse, feldspar and quartz. The firing method was very important too, so they build special kilns where they fired the Chinese porcelain pieces at low or high temperatures depending on which was the wanted result.

A famous piece of Chinese porcelain is the Jian Tea. In Fujian Province was a kiln named Jianyang where the tea bowls were fired. Jian Tea bowls had only the black color. When Song Dynasty leaded China the popularity of Jian Tea bowls increased. The artisans used a large quantity of iron in the mixture and fired the finished product at 1300 degrees Celsius. It is well known that a large quantity of iron makes the porcelain look black. The white Chinese porcelain ingredients were poor in iron. As for the glaze used for Jian Tea porcelain, it was made from the same type of clay utilized before plus ash from burned wood. This tea bowl has a half centimeter foot made of iron. Its walls were thick. This means that tea stayed warm longer which was another unique detail of Jian Tea bowls. It is believed that whenever tea has priority and it was not only a pretext for afternoon meetings, the Chinese people always used Jian Tea bowls instead of blue and white Chinese porcelain which was a mark of finesse.

A piece of this dish survived through time and it can now be admired at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art in New York.