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Jingdezhen Cup — “Dalang, Take Your Medicine”, 100ml
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China
A hand-painted porcelain cup from Jingdezhen with the best-known joke in Chinese pop culture. ” It is a scene from Water Margin, the classic novel: a wife in red brings her sick husband his “medicine”, he smiles, he nods, and every Chinese reader knows what is in the bowl.
On the cup she is wide-eyed and innocent, he is asleep with two little curls of smoke floating above him. Pure black humour, painted with a very straight face.
The painting sits under a crackled white glaze, and the foot and lower body are a wood-fired amber that drifts to cream and brown. About 100 ml, mouth 7.1 cm, height 6 cm — a proper gongfu cup.
Fired at 1310 °C. The glaze changes colour in the fire, so every cup comes out slightly different — see the two bases in the photos — and the colour you receive may differ from the photos.
Painted and made by hand, so the size varies slightly too. This is a pre-order item: we source it from China for you once you place the order.
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- Volume
- 100ml
- Material
- Porcelain, crackle glaze
- Capacity
- approx. 100 ml
- Size
- mouth 7.1 cm, height 6 cm
- Decoration
- Hand-painted under the glaze
- Firing
- 1310 °C
- Making
- Handmade
- Origin
- Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China
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