对茶叶末釉的称赞，最广为流传的，是清末寂园叟《陶雅》中的这段文辞：“茶叶末黄杂绿色。娇娆而不俗。艳於花。美如玉。笵为瓶。最养目。”

何为茶叶末釉？比较科学化的说法是：一种失透的铁、镁质结晶釉。科学的描述，于欣赏总是无甚助益。对茶叶末釉的考证与分类，对欣赏者而言，也并没有什么特别的意义。简单的说，茶叶末的的产生，根据考古的明证，已推溯至唐代。唐时耀州窑，烧制了大量的茶叶末釉，上佳者，近于清代官窑。唐之后，虽然茶叶末釉并未销声匿迹。但似乎已沦为一种副产品，甚至是残次品，是一种工艺上的失败。这种失败一直延续，直到清代，摇身一变，成为宫庭秘釉，仅供皇室珍赏。

茶叶末釉产生于雍正时期，早在唐代耀州窑及辽金的磁州窑也有类似的釉色。但是，到雍正时，唐英把它和景德镇瓷器的白瓷胎结合到一起，发明了这种釉色。当初唐英定的名称叫厂官釉。茶叶末是《陶雅》一书中记录古玩商人的叫法。好的茶叶末釉很值钱，主要藏于北京的故宫博物院中。从传世实物看，以雍正、乾隆时期的产品为多，并以乾隆时的烧制最为成功。茶叶末釉中绿者称茶，黄者称末。雍正时是有茶无末，乾隆时则茶末兼有。釉色偏绿者居多，有的上挂古铜锈色。因具有青铜器的沉着色调，常被用来仿古铜器，所以又叫“古铜彩”。

雍正茶叶末釉精品大器物古穆沉雄。小器物细纤文秀，轮廓线条不能增减，釉色之美更是滋润、鲜明、活泼，如万点金星隐于釉中。这些都是后世难以仿制和企及的。

The most widely circulated compliment for the glaze of tea powder is the passage in the "Tao Ya" by Ji Yuanman in the late Qing Dynasty: "The tea powder is yellow and green. It is delicate but not vulgar. It is as beautiful as a flower. Beautiful as jade. The 笵 is Bottle. The most eye-catching."

What is tea powder glaze? A more scientific argument is: a devitrified iron and magnesia crystalline glaze. Scientific descriptions are not always helpful for appreciation. The textual research and classification of tea powder glaze does not have any special significance to the viewer. To put it simply, the production of tea powder has been traced back to the Tang Dynasty based on evidence from archaeology. In the Tang Dynasty, Yaozhou kilns fired a large amount of tea powder glaze, the best ones are close to the official kilns of the Qing Dynasty. After the Tang Dynasty, although the tea powder glaze did not disappear. But it seems that it has become a by-product, or even a defective product, which is a technological failure. This failure continued until the Qing Dynasty, when it was transformed into a palace secret glaze, which was only treasured by the royal family.

The tea powder glaze was produced during the Yongzheng period. As early as the Tang Dynasty Yaozhou kiln and the Liaojin Cizhou kiln also had similar glaze colors. However, in Yongzheng, Tang Ying combined it with the white porcelain body of Jingdezhen porcelain and invented this glaze. The name of Tang Yingding was Changguan Glaze. Tea powder is the name used by antique dealers in the book "Tao Ya". Good tea powder glaze is very valuable and is mainly hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing. Judging from the handed down objects, most of them were produced during the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods, and the firing during the Qianlong period was the most successful. The green in the glaze of the tea powder is called tea, and the yellow is called the end. During the Yongzheng period, there was tea without end, and during the Qianlong period, there was both. Most of the glazes are greenish, and some are decorated with bronze rust. Because of the calm tone of bronze ware, it is often used to antique bronze ware, so it is also called "bronze color".

Yongzheng tea powder glaze exquisite large utensils ancient Mu Shenxiong. The small objects are delicate and elegant, and the outline and lines cannot be increased or decreased. The beauty of the glaze color is moist, vivid and lively, such as the ten thousand-point gold star hidden in the glaze. These are difficult to imitate and match for later generations.