Show Off Your Pots and Cups VI

[Victoria]

Thanks Chamekke!!

Very nice cups Beidao! I love the tin, I'm partial to birds, especially in pairs.
Sweet!

[Beidao]

Selaphiel: I found them in a little japanese store. I did suspect they were meant for sake drinking, but who cares anyway ^_^

Victoria: I'm glad you liked it, I just couldn't refuse it's call

[chamekke]

Selaphiel: I found them in a little japanese store. I did suspect they were meant for sake drinking, but who cares anyway ^_^

I love sake cups and very much enjoyed your photos - thank you.

Incidentally, I own quite a few sake cups, and several of them are rather large (as sake cups go!). So while they may be meant for sake drinking, they can make wonderful tea cups too. One of these days I'll post some pics.

[chamekke]

For the chawan fans on TeaChat, I decided it might be fun to photograph some sake cups that actually look like miniature chawan-s. I was assisted by a little English badger:



The most impressive piece is the Sasaki Tadashi guinomi behind Badger... but he prefers the simpler cup by B.C. potter Lynne Johnson. Possibly because it's the one with the sake in it:



A rueful look, as he realizes I'm not going to let him drink any:



This is the Oribe guinomi by the late Sasaki Tadashi (a very lucky find at a consignment shop):



Although I do love it for drinking sake, I'd give anything to be able to put it into a transmogrifier and enlarge it into a chawan!



Incidentally, these aren't among the sake cups that I sometimes use for tea-drinking. Those may appear in another posting

[Salsero]

Very nice post, Chamekke, beautifully and entertainingly illustrated. Thanks much, and nice to meet the badger!

[Victoria]

Thanks Chamekke! Sweet badger!
The one in the back on the left; is that brown or black?

[chamekke]

Thank you Salsero and Victoria! (You may be seeing more badgers...)

Thanks Chamekke! Sweet badger!
The one in the back on the left; is that brown or black?

It's black; and although it's a little distorted by the camera angle, the shape is very nearly tenmoku-style, which is why I bought it. (I can provide better-quality close-up shots of the cups if anyone is interested.)

[olivierco]

(I can provide better-quality close-up shots of the cups if anyone is interested.)

Of course we are interested!

[scruffmcgruff]

Thank you Salsero and Victoria! (You may be seeing more badgers...)

[Victoria]

(I can provide better-quality close-up shots of the cups if anyone is interested.)

Of course we are interested!

Ditto!

OY!! Scruff!!

Nice chawan, but I've never seen that kind of chasen before!

[chamekke]

OK, I'll take some more pics later today

Scruff, I'll see your:



...and raise you one:

[chamekke]

OY!! Scruff!!

Nice chawan, but I've never seen that kind of chasen before!

And call me traditional, but I like a chashaku that doesn't come with blades

[Victoria]

Yay!! Well after months of resisting - I finally did it - I bought the Molo Fritted Tea Lantern -
it is so gorgeous! I love it! I love glass anyway, so of course I would love it! The lantern
is all one piece and double-walled so it keeps the tea hot and it also comes with a small glass
tealight candle to set underneath if needed. I have had the fritted tea cups for awhile, I am
so happy with the lantern!


~clicky~

[chamekke]

Wow - that's a beauty! I've never seen anything like it

[murrius]

~clicky~[/quote]


Murrius once again faints from pure unadulterated envy......