Tea Pets
They keep you company, they love tea, and some of them help you determine your water temperature! I’m thinking of acquiring one or more of these little cuties.
If anyone knows where I can find a ferret tea pet, please let me know!
Do you have a tea pet? What do you like about it? Where did you get it? Will you share a picture?
What is a tea pet?
It’s a little clay figure (usually something related to good luck or fortune traditionally) that can be used as part of the gungfu style of making tea. They traditionally helped a tea maker make sure their water temp was where it needed to be by squirting water. But mostly they seem to be great company! They’re also known as tea mascots and/or a pee pee boy.
Couldn’t find a ferret tea pet, but did find this…..
http://www.ebay.com/itm/GTCA56-CON-Ferret-Tea-Cup-Green-Holiday-Ornament-/271583600771?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f3ba4e083
Ooh a ferret would be so cute! I currently have a tiny frog (he is hanging out in this blog post on the first and last photo http://ramblingbutterflythoughts.blogspot.com/2014/10/life-in-teacup-tie-guan-yin-traditional.html) and I am getting two more so I have a trio! I got them from Crimson Lotus Tea
My big search is for an octopus tea pet, no luck so far, though I have seen a very cute crab.
Good luck on your search! I googled it and found some amazing octopus tea sets, so maybe a tea pet is only a matter of time…
I have no idea where one might find a ferret tea pet, unfortunately.
I have tea kitty who enjoys drinking tea with me.
http://instagram.com/p/uWQkz5gyfd/?modal=true
I have a frog sitting on a seashell and a piggy
http://instagram.com/p/qh_DSOx-oV/?modal=true
http://instagram.com/p/uZX7h1R-jg/
They’re addicting :)
No ferrets, but 3 or 4 years ago Verdant sold tea pets for a short time and I picked up a pair of feet with a spider on each. They look exactly like this only without any of the writing. They got a good soak last night! Now I need an actual tea tray and a sharing pitcher…
http://img03.taobaocdn.com/bao/uploaded/i3/T19ahTXk0XXXblaucZ_031800.jpg
I know this thread is old, but I’m shopping around for a tea pet, and of all the elegant, beautiful, cute, fat and silly tea pets there are out there, I found this one and just about rolled out of my chair laughing at it!
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-Authentic-Ruyao-Solid-White-Horse-Shape-Kungfu-Tea-Pet-Kungfu-Tea-Accessory-Study-Office-Tea/32299591522.html
I’m seriously considering buying it, it is just too darn funny-looking!
I love chubby horse tea pets! They remind me of the horse in What’s Opera, Doc :)
where else is good for tea pets?
ive looked at ebay and there isnt as many as i thought, and one shop which was really expensive. I really want a dragon as my mayan sign is red dragon
aliexpress.com, guaranteed you’ll find something you like. If not today, then check back in two weeks. It’s basically like Chinese ebay!
I’ve noticed a uniformity with tea pets which is rather too bad. Everyone has the same ones and sells the same ones. The best are made by artists but are expensive and hard to come by online. On EBay I saw a couple new dragon pets this week. Of course the nicer ones are pricey.
Here is my little bugger.
http://www.chawangshop.com/index.php/tea-hardware/zisha-clay-tea-pet/zisha-clay-tea-pet-two-lions-playing-with-a-ball.html
Cwyn, me too, that is why I started using my miniatures and random oddball things I find :P not EXACTLY a teapet, but how else am I going to get a lich teapet
I’d recommend checking out enchanted forests and deciduous wonderlands for teapets. They are plentiful in such areas ;-)
https://instagram.com/p/5K-0TQtyqn/?taken-by=whisperingpinestea
https://instagram.com/p/5U1NKYNyt1/?taken-by=whisperingpinestea
https://instagram.com/p/5vGaePtyt3/?taken-by=whisperingpinestea
https://instagram.com/p/6sSh4CNypi/?taken-by=whisperingpinestea
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