Horseshoe Cup, a Crackled Glaze Teacup with an Elegant Red Calligraphy 60 ml.

Description

STYLE

The horseshoe shape is a classic teacup shape from the Ming Period. Its slightly outward sloping rim allows a good handle. Antique looking, traditional shaped, heavy ceramic cup with crackled, celadon glaze and elegant red calligraphy. A well balanced base, very beautiful teacup with a soft shine and nice feel to hold. After repeated tea drinking, the tea seeping through the cracks of the cup creates a patina on the ceramic wall.

The poem on the cup is by the Tang dynastic poet Lu Tong:

Song of Tea by Lu Tung

The first cup moistens my lips and throat.
The second cup breaks my loneliness.
The third cup searches my barren entrail,
but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs.
The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration;
all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores.
At the fifth cup I am purified.
The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals.
The seventh cup – ah, but I could take no more!
I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves.
Where is Paradise? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither.

MATERIAL

Ruyao Ceramic teacup

DIMENSIONS

Capacity: 60 ml.

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CONDITION

New