A YOUNG FOUNDER · A RETURN TO LILING
CIHUE began with a decision to return to my hometown and build a business around its porcelain. My hope is simple: that something made here will find a place in homes far beyond Liling.
A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER
Returning to Liling was where my journey as an entrepreneur began. Porcelain is one of the industries that helps this hometown thrive. I wanted to take part in its future and find a way to share what is made here with people much farther away.
Inside the workshop, that ambition becomes something you can see: bowls waiting on racks, cups gathered on a table, hands turning a piece before it moves to the next station. Behind every finished object is a place, a process and someone’s work. I want that connection to travel with the porcelain.
Building CIHUE means bringing those pieces into a different kind of conversation—how a cup feels in someone’s morning, which dishes make a table feel like home, what a customer hopes to create from a design of their own. Each conversation helps shape what we do next.
“I want people around the world to know Liling through something they hold, use and enjoy every day.”
Our direction is fine porcelain at approachable prices. We care about the shape, the surface and the details that make a piece worth keeping, while keeping everyday use at the heart of the collection.
We will introduce new pieces over time, welcome custom projects and offer selected one-of-a-kind works. This is a young business with a long view: to grow alongside our hometown’s porcelain industry and carry its work to more corners of the world.
— The founder of CIHUE
THE NAME
CI comes from cí, the Chinese word for porcelain. HUE means color. Together, they name what draws us to a piece: the color in its glaze, a painted detail, the way it changes as you turn it toward the window.
We notice these things when choosing a piece. We hope you will enjoy noticing them, too.
WHERE WE COME FROM
Walk through our workshop and the scale changes. There are rows of cups on a table, stacks of plates between stations and racks waiting beside the kiln. Then you look closer: one person turning a piece, another working around a rim.
Our films follow that everyday work. You can see pieces being handled individually, dipped and sprayed, set down and picked up again. These are the small movements behind the finished surface.
Liling is our home and the starting point for CIHUE. Its porcelain tradition gives us a reason to keep looking closely—at color, at form and at the work each piece asks of the people making it.
WHERE IT GOES NEXT
We think about where a piece will go next: coffee at the kitchen counter, noodles after a long day, an extra place set when a friend stays for dinner. A cup should feel at home in those moments.
You might choose it for the color at first. Then you find you like the curve of the handle, or the way it sits beside your breakfast plate. Those small, familiar details are why we care about everyday porcelain.
COME INSIDE
At the workstations, hands turn and check each form. The footage lets you stay with those ordinary, careful movements for a moment.
A piece is dipped, lifted and turned. At another station, spray passes over its surface. Our films show several ways of working across the workshop.
Racks of porcelain share the floor with plates and cups at different stages. Beyond the finished object is a busy space, and people who know their part in it.
We share these real photographs and films so you can see the place behind CIHUE. Different products follow different processes; each product page describes the piece you are choosing.
OUR DIRECTION
Pieces to use, new designs to discover and room for something personal.
YOUR IDEA, OUR CONVERSATION
Bring a sketch, a color, a pattern or a gift idea. We will discuss the design, quantity, timing and a tailored quote with you.
MORE TO DISCOVER
We will keep adding new designs and fresh finds from our hometown. Follow CIHUE to see what arrives next.
SOME PIECES STAND ALONE
Some pieces are available as a single, individual work. Look for an explicit “One of a kind · 1 available” description on the product page to identify these pieces.
CIHUE / PORCELAIN IN ITS OWN HUE
OUR SHOP IN CHINA
In the workshop, pieces move between hands, tables and racks. In our shop, they meet each other again: a row of blue teapots, a box of colorful cups, a display laid for sharing a meal. Together, these two spaces are part of our everyday life in porcelain.
Our shop in China brings cups, tableware and decorative pieces together. Walk around a display and the same glaze catches the light in a different way.
Swipe or scroll sideways to explore the photographs.
Small gourd-shaped ornaments, bright gift-boxed cups and deep blue teapots show the range of pieces in our store. These photographs introduce the shop; online availability is shown in the product collection.
Swipe or scroll sideways to explore the photographs.
CUSTOM ORDERS
Share a sketch, artwork or reference. Let’s discuss your porcelain project.