Porcelain Umbrella Tea Infuser Set

This is for loose leaf tea, not for tea bags. The bowl holds the leaf and the holes let the tea through; a bag has nothing to do here. If you mostly drink supermarket tea bags, a strainer will not change much. If you drink loose leaf, flowering tea or herbal blends, this is the part that was missing.

A metal ball infuser

A screw thread that is hard to open with wet hands

Leaf is crushed into a small cage and cannot unfurl, so it brews flat and bitter

Takes on a metallic taste over time, especially the cheaper ones

Leaf fragments lodge in the hinge and stay there

This set

An open bowl, so the leaf has room to expand and brew properly

Glazed porcelain, so it does not hold the taste of the last tea you made

A rinse is enough, and there is no hinge for fragments to hide in

Comes with its own tray, so you are not hunting for a saucer

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The umbrella shape

A flared petal bowl on a stem with a hooked handle. That is where the name comes from, and it is also why there is something to grip when the bowl is hot.

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Fine holes, not big ones

The perforations are small enough to hold back fragments, not just whole leaves, so you get a clear cup rather than grit at the bottom.

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Its own drip tray

Lift the bowl out and set it on the tray instead of on the table. The point is not decoration, it is not having a wet ring to wipe up afterwards.

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Glazed porcelain

Tea tannin rinses off a glaze. An unglazed clay strainer keeps the stain, and eventually keeps the taste of every tea that has been through it.

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A hook and a tassel

The gold-tone hook gives you a handle that is not hot porcelain. The tassel is the reason the set looks like a gift rather than like equipment.

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For leaf, not for bags

Loose leaf, flowering tea and herbal blends are the whole reason to own a strainer. A bag already has its own filter built in.

Blue & White

Dense indigo floral scroll on white. The darkest of the four, and the closest to classic export porcelain.

Peony

Coral and pink peonies with green leaves. The only one of the four with colour outside the blue range.

Bird & Blossom

Birds among flowering branches in blue and white. The busiest of the four to look at, and the one people notice first.

Blue & White Peony

Blue and white again, but with open peony blooms instead of a dense scroll. Lighter and less busy than the first.

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The daily cup

One mug, one spoon of leaf, three minutes. The version you use every morning rather than the one you keep for guests.

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A table for guests

Four patterns means a table that does not look like four copies of the same object, which matters more than it sounds.

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A gift that gets used

For someone who drinks tea every day but has never bought themselves a proper strainer. It arrives looking like a present.

Three pieces, and what each one is for

The set is an infuser bowl, a drip tray shaped to match it, and a gold-tone hook with a tassel. The bowl carries the leaf and has the filter holes across its floor; the tray sits underneath and catches what drips off when you lift the bowl out. The hook is not decoration alone, it is the part you hold so your fingers are not on hot porcelain. Everything that touches the tea is glazed, which is why a rinse is enough and why the surface does not take on the colour of a strong black tea the way unglazed clay does.

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Bought this after years of metal balls that never opened properly. The open bowl makes an obvious difference to how the leaf tastes. Should have done it sooner.

Ruth A. · Verified Buyer

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The tray is the part I did not expect to care about. No more tea rings on the table, and it looks tidy sitting out between cups.

Margaret W. · Verified Buyer

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Ordered the peony one as a gift and kept it. The coral colour is warmer in person than on screen, which I liked. Ordered two more for Christmas.

Diane F. · Verified Buyer

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Check your cup width before ordering. Mine is a wide soup mug and the set sits across it fine, but my husband's tall travel cup was never going to work.

Helen P. · Verified Buyer