infusion mugs, lidded and or handled cups
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2020 5:21 am
Perhaps not as coveted as F1 pots, but sometimes it is just what you need. Do these kinds of mugs/cups have a special name in Chinese?
I've been on the look out on and off for a nice mug for a while, with or without an infuser, and its actually proven kind of a difficult find. Most of what you see available especially in Europe are these hideous gaudy painted porcelain mugs. There are plenty of "yixing" mugs or lidded cups floating around on ebay and elsewhere of widely varying but probably mostly questionable quality, though maybe some are made with nothing fancy but at least acceptable/safe clay, just impossible to tell from photos.
Anyone got any in their collection they care to share and/or happen to have some leads on where to find some nicer ones? I remember seeing some that FarmerLeaf commissioned in a run of Jianshui pots but they disappeared pretty quickly, and TeaLife having a couple of nice vintage porcelain rice pattern ones.
I'm also curious how these kinds of mugs/cups came about. I've seen Japanese lidded cups as well. Did they start off as more what we would recognize as Chinese or Japanese style smaller cups with lids and the handles came later, slowly evolving to look more like a European style handled cup? Was it purely a western style invention with the infusers that worked its way backwards? Did any of the large factories ever produce cups in this style?
I've been on the look out on and off for a nice mug for a while, with or without an infuser, and its actually proven kind of a difficult find. Most of what you see available especially in Europe are these hideous gaudy painted porcelain mugs. There are plenty of "yixing" mugs or lidded cups floating around on ebay and elsewhere of widely varying but probably mostly questionable quality, though maybe some are made with nothing fancy but at least acceptable/safe clay, just impossible to tell from photos.
Anyone got any in their collection they care to share and/or happen to have some leads on where to find some nicer ones? I remember seeing some that FarmerLeaf commissioned in a run of Jianshui pots but they disappeared pretty quickly, and TeaLife having a couple of nice vintage porcelain rice pattern ones.
I'm also curious how these kinds of mugs/cups came about. I've seen Japanese lidded cups as well. Did they start off as more what we would recognize as Chinese or Japanese style smaller cups with lids and the handles came later, slowly evolving to look more like a European style handled cup? Was it purely a western style invention with the infusers that worked its way backwards? Did any of the large factories ever produce cups in this style?