This is a handmade high quality Purple Clay Tea Cup. Clay teawares are prized because their unglazed surfaces absorb traces of the beverage, creating a more complex flavour. For these reasons, clay teawares should never be washed using detergents, but rather with water only, and connoisseurs recommend using each tea vessel for one kind of tea (white, green, oolong, or black) or sometimes even one variety of tea only. This Chinese tea cups are low, shallow and wide and very small by Western standards, like a tiny bowl that is just large enough for one or two sips. This emphasises the “quality over quantity” aspect. It has the high collection value.