Antique Botanical Plate tea

Chinese tea · museum art object

Real leaf presented as a hand-tinted antique botanical engraving

The real leaf presented as a hand-tinted antique botanical engraving plate. The same setup for every tea in the catalogue, so the difference you see is the tea.

A teamotea tea photographed in a museum-art-object setting: the real leaf presented as a hand-tinted antique botanical engraving plate

The catalogue, category by category

34 teas · 7 categories

Green teaGreen tea5 teasOolongOolong14 teasRed tea (hongcha)Red tea (hongcha)6 teasPu-erhPu-erh4 teasWhite teaWhite tea2 teasTea paste (chagao)Tea paste (chagao)2 teasBuckwheat (not a tea)Buckwheat (not a tea)1 tea

Wear

All tees and hoodies →

Wear — Ālǐshān Zhū Lù CháĀlǐshān Zhū Lù CháWear — Bái JiānBái JiānWear — Passion-Fruit OolongPassion-Fruit OolongWear — Raw Pu-erh PasteRaw Pu-erh PasteWear — Ripe Pu-erh PasteRipe Pu-erh PasteWear — Dà Hóng PáoDà Hóng Páo

Why the treatment never varies

Every one of the 34 teas is photographed the same way in this shop: the real leaf presented as a hand-tinted antique botanical engraving plate. The frame keeps refined and scholarly. What changes between teas is the tea, not the treatment — loose tea in the frame carries the difference. The set was built to work as encyclopedic, collectible art. Nothing in these frames is a stock photograph: the tin is our own 100 g tin, printed with our own labels, and the tea inside it is the tea being sold. One visual language across a whole catalogue is harder than one striking image, and it is the part that makes a shelf look like a brand.