By the Measure of the Sea | White Porcelain Tea & Coffee Set

The Story of the First Pot

By the Measure of the Sea is not only a teapot. It is the piece that established what NewChi Porcelain could be.

Heinrich Wang tells the story in The Age of Aesthetics. Twenty years before NewChi Porcelain existed, he had traveled to New York to study glassmaking, and came back with orders for tea and coffee set designs — designs that every Taiwanese ceramics factory immediately rejected. The problem was not the design. It was porcelain itself.

High-temperature porcelain shrinks 15% during firing. The clay softens before it vitrifies. Straight lines deflect. Flat surfaces collapse. Suspended forms bend. These are not problems that can be designed around — they have to be solved in the kiln, one piece at a time, and the solution rate for complex forms was below 20%. Most factories refused to accept that rate. Wang writes: "The more seriously I came to understand what I was asking, the more I understood why everyone told me it was impossible."

Wang writes: "After years of effort and what felt like burning money, we finally completed pieces unlike anything before. Once we had the craft in hand, creativity was no longer constrained — form could carry the brand's ideas without being dissolved. For the first time, we could see the possibility of competing with the established names."

By the Measure of the Sea was the first pot. It demonstrated that straight lines, flat surfaces, and suspended handles could be fired in white porcelain — and in doing so, made every subsequent NewChi piece possible.

Wang designed it to embody the name: the full round body holds everything generously, as the sea holds what it receives; the water motorcycle stance moves forward without hesitation; the suspended handle holds its line without apology. "Racing through the waves with full-hearted passion — to share with everyone we meet the boundless generosity of the sea."

This piece has been discontinued. Current stock is the last.

Brand story excerpted from Heinrich Wang, The Age of Aesthetics, Da Tian Publishing.

Tea and coffee moments
By the Measure of the Sea works equally as a teapot and a coffee brewer. Whether it's a morning coffee or an afternoon tea with friends, every pour is an invitation to share.

Entertaining at home
The generous, full-bodied form is made for gathering. With every cup raised, what is being shared is not only the drink — it is the warmth of being together.

Housewarming, business opening, and promotion gifts
By the Measure of the Sea carries the meaning of an open heart and wide connections — and the aspiration of a life and career expanding outward. A gift with both cultural depth and lasting collectible value.

Personal use: Those who want a complete tea or coffee configuration — and who would find meaning in owning the piece that began NewChi Porcelain

Gifting: A gift for someone who appreciates the story behind the object as much as the object itself; a significant milestone occasion that deserves something with genuine weight

Collecting: As the first pot of NewChi Porcelain — now discontinued — By the Measure of the Sea holds a specific and unrepeatable position in the brand's history. Current stock is the final opportunity to acquire it.