Capacity filled to rim: Approximately 115ml.
Since each teacup is hand painted, the design may vary slightly from the photos.
This teacup is hand wheeled of fine thin porcelain and features a hand painted doucai design.
These teacups were made using the doucai technique that originated in Ming Dynasty China. Doucai 斗彩 is a porcelain painting technique that uses both 釉下青花 youxia qinghua, "underglaze cobalt blue painting," and 釉上彩 youshangcai "overglaze painting" of many colours. The process of making doucai porcelain is quite labour-intensive for the artists. Click here to learn more about the studio and how each piece is made.
The teacup was fired in a gas kiln at 1300°C for 18-20 hours for the qinghua (blue) underglaze and then painted with the surface colours (fencai) before being fired once more in an electric kiln at 850°C for 3-4 hours.
This kind of porcelain is known as fanggu porcelain because it aims to revive an ancient style of porcelain. Fanggu technique is more costly and difficult to execute properly than modern styles of porcelain.
Click here to learn more about fanggu porcelain in our blog entry.