Porcelain Zodiac Rabbit Tea Figurine

The Zodiac Rabbit Porcelain Tea Figurine is a beautiful porcelain figurine, used in the traditional tea ceremony. 

Figurines in the Chinese Tea Ceremony If you have ever seen the Chinese tea ceremony in Gunfu Cha, China, you have probably noticed that almost all the tea trays (Cheban) have a clay figurine – “茶宠” (animal of the you). 

It is a small Yixing clay artwork, which is constantly bathed during the tea ceremony as an omen of good luck and fortune. 

In China, tea figurines are revered on a par with pets, even though they are basically small objects made to decorate the tea tray. 

In some Chinese families, the dragon figurine can mean the energy of heaven and symbolize a connection with the god Tao, and in another family a talisman given by a deceased grandfather, who remembers him and bestows his wisdom on the family.