Wow, that is also very cool! Not white inside, but I'm getting over that ... slowly ...
Nice! Love the shape and the thiness.
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Like I said, new camera, and I was shooting using the setting sun as a light source. The lightest portions of the pattern are actually white/off white. Still not sure how tea will look in it though...Victoria wrote:Wow, that is also very cool! Not white inside, but I'm getting over that ... slowly ...
Nice! Love the shape and the thiness.
can you link the site's address, look very nice especially its shape.bi lew chun wrote:Like I said, new camera, and I was shooting using the setting sun as a light source. The lightest portions of the pattern are actually white/off white. Still not sure how tea will look in it though...Victoria wrote:Wow, that is also very cool! Not white inside, but I'm getting over that ... slowly ...
Nice! Love the shape and the thiness.
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It seems more like a small tea bowl to me, and now that you mention it, it is pretty thin.GeekgirlUnveiled wrote:oh my! Is that a matcha teabowl, or a small teabowl? It's beautiful. It looks like you're continuing your trend of the thinnest porcelain possible.
Wish I could! This was a single piece sold by someone on eBay who seems to deal in random art. They don't even have anything else for sale at the moment.orguz wrote:can you link the site's address, look very nice especially its shape.
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While traveling I stumbled on these two magnificent specimens. I simply couldn't pass them up. Now all I need is a tea table.
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Wow very cool. But your pics are reversed, right?
The pair is to be displayed with the objects inside,
safe between the two.
The pair is to be displayed with the objects inside,
safe between the two.
- Victoria -
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*cracks up* Which museum were you visiting, Salsero?Salsero wrote:While traveling I stumbled on these two magnificent specimens. I simply couldn't pass them up. Now all I need is a tea table.
They also had some very nice jade teaware inside; but it looked pretty old, so I passed on it.
Although my neighbors are all barbarians,
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups on my table.
--Tang Dynasty
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups on my table.
--Tang Dynasty
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*passes out from searching ebay for foos*Salsero wrote:While traveling I stumbled on these two magnificent specimens. I simply couldn't pass them up. Now all I need is a tea table.
They also had some very nice jade teaware inside; but it looked pretty old, so I passed on it.
Yeah, you don't want none of that OLD stuff. bleh.
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I've been looking out for chataku locally, and the other day I found the following saucer, made by the English porcelain manufacturer Carlton Ware, at the local consignment shop. There was no matching cup, only the leaf-shaped saucer all by itself. So I bought it to try out with my Arita yunomi (sorry, slightly blurry pic follows):
I wouldn't normally pair Japanese porcelain with European, but since the cup itself includes green leaves, I thought - as my late mother* would say - that it might "go". Actually I'm not quite sure that the result is all that successful, but I did like the idea of an East/West tea marriage!
P.S. I think this saucer on eBay is the same one.
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*My mother had several pieces of Carlton Ware that she loved, so there's a bit of sentiment there, too
I wouldn't normally pair Japanese porcelain with European, but since the cup itself includes green leaves, I thought - as my late mother* would say - that it might "go". Actually I'm not quite sure that the result is all that successful, but I did like the idea of an East/West tea marriage!
P.S. I think this saucer on eBay is the same one.
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*My mother had several pieces of Carlton Ware that she loved, so there's a bit of sentiment there, too
