Small Enough Not to Need an Excuse
Most tea happens at a desk, not a formal table, and this small 茶盂 was made for exactly that scale: just big enough to be useful, small enough that it never feels like it's taking up space it didn't earn. 250cc, shaped from high-grade Yixing duanni clay by an experienced craftsman's hand, sized to sit easily in one palm.
Its main job is catching the tea liquid of someone drinking alone, the version of a fairness pitcher made for one person rather than a table of guests. But the same vessel works equally well as a 水丞 on a writing desk — drop in a small bronze ladle patterned with a ruyi motif, and it becomes the water vessel for grinding ink, used and refilled without ceremony.
一物多用，并非贪心 — "useful for more than one thing isn't greed," the description insists, almost defensively. It's a fair point: a vessel this size was never going to do one job seriously and another one badly. It just does both, quietly, on whichever desk it happens to be sitting on.