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Roselle Garden - 1987 Teacup
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Description
The 1987 Teacup marks a quiet invitation to begin your own Eastern ritual, perhaps with a simple cup of green tea, still steaming, as light filters through morning air. Its proportions are drawn from the Song dynasty’s tea gatherings, reimagined through a modern lens of calm and restraint.
The cup’s roselle red glaze catches and softens light, revealing subtle shifts of tone. Golden deer glide around its surface, symbols of vitality and grace, reminders of nature’s gentle motion. Balanced in weight and touch, it feels equally at home on a contemporary table or within a collector’s hand.
* Material: Handcrafted white porcelain
* Size: 86x73H mm | Volumn 120mm
* Finish: Roselle red glaze with gold deer motifs
* Origin: Jingdezhen, China
* Each piece shaped individually by hand
details
In your hands, heritage becomes part of your daily rituals.
Release
1987
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Finish
Roselle red glase with gold deer motifs
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Origin
jingdezhen, china
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Process
Jun ware with transmutation glaze
maintenance
Our pieces are made to last, but how you care for them is what gives them soul.
- Avoid placing the carafe in a microwave, oven, or steamer, high heat may affect the glaze.
- Dishwasher safe; gentle cycles are best.
- Avoid metal utensils or rough sponges on the surface.
- After use, rinse and dry softly to preserve the glaze’s depth.
- For light stains, soak briefly with baking soda and warm water.
Inspiration
Objects are not trophies. They are the quiet witnesses to how you live.
Roselle Garden is a dream of Jiangnan at dawn, where mist lifts from water and the world feels suspended between waking and memory.
The deer moves softly through this imagined garden, a timeless symbol of grace and renewal. On porcelain, its form is more than ornament; it speaks of the balance between freedom and stillness, life and art.
Through the kiln’s unpredictable alchemy, colours bloom and shift like light through early fog, each cup a small landscape of chance and craftsmanship.
The Artisan Behind
In Jingdezhen, Master Deng Xiping continues a lineage once reserved for imperial workshops. Her life in porcelain spans over six decades, from apprentice to national master of coloured glazes, and her hands still carry the rhythm of patience learned in youth.
Working alongside a new generation of women artisans, Deng’s studio redefines what heritage can be. Here, tradition is not repeated but renewed: every brushstroke and glaze firing becomes a dialogue between eras, between the precision of the past and the emotion of the present.
The Roselle Garden series embodies this evolution, porcelain as both memory and movement, a quiet testament to the artistry of women shaping the future of an ancient craft.
