These two Fanggu style blue white Chinese tea cups are hand thrown and hand painted cups for Kungfu tea. It was handcrafted with the high quality natural Kaolin clay in Jingdezhen (the porcelain city in China), then hand painted and glazed by local master before firing at a high temperature of 1330 Celsius.
They are one of the master pieces of under glazed porcelain, they are Fanggu style tea cups, the old style that had been used back to Ming Qing Dynasties. The high quality glaze brings a great touch, and the hand painted Dragon and Phoenix on the surface make the cups so unique and beautiful. They are great master cups for your Kung Fu tea ceremony at home, also a perfect gift to Gongfu tea lovers, something that can be passed down generations.
Size of the tea cup: 150ml/5oz
Tips of Dragon & Phoenix in Chinese cultural:
Deeply rooted in Chinese culture, dragon and phoenix were regarded as the most sacred animals and used to be emblems of emperor and empress. The Chinese dragon is traditionally the embodiment of the concept of yang (male), while phoenix was paired (yin, female) with dragon. They were used as decorative signs on the buildings, clothing and other daily uses articles of imperial palace to highly show off that the emperor as real dragon and son of heaven.
