Teacup from Teacups with a Hundred Sages

1893–1914 Overall: 6.5 x 9 cm (2 9/16 x 3 9/16 in.) Source image
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Each of these five teacups has a painting of identical design in underglaze blue, but as the tiny figures are drawn entirely by hand, each cup has its own personality. The theme of the sencha cups is an assembly of sages or immortals, literally “a hundred venerable [people]” (...

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