Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Lucky Cloud Tea Cup


I will use Lucky clouds pattern etching on my silver cup.
Normal tea cup's handle doesn't look like this, I put this handle try to made my cup looks more contemporary. I try to use jewellery technique to re- expression tea cup. later, I will make whole tea set.

This is my Final work -- Lucky cloud tea cup. Let's drik !

Silver Vessels

Wine Container
Silversmith: Zhao Wei
Material: Silver; sandalwood; Ore

I like her this work, because she used different material, and particular idea as well. She use the different poly and method to expression normal wine container, made it looks more contemporary and unique style.

Bowl
Silversmith: Tang Xuxiang
Material: Silver
I like his works, because he used Chinese traditional pattern. This bowl's shape is very simple, but the pattern made it looks more elegant.

GongFu Tea Cups



The first impression for Chinese GongFu tea cups is tiny and exquisite. Normally, Chinese people using purple sand(zi sha) or Porcelin to made it. Cause GongFu Tea is a kind of tea ceremony, Chinese people prefer put some beautiful pattern or Chinese calligraphy at Cups outside surface, so the drinking is more like a kind of art.
If you interesting with Chinese tea culture, you can view following website: http://tea.timzhao.com/ctcom/index.html


Monday, May 11, 2009

GongFu Tea Equipment

(Source from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_tea_culture)

Tea is traditional drink for the Chinese people's daily lives. GongFu Tea is a tea ceremony in China. The GongFu Tea equipment are all tiny and exquisite. A smaller tea pot about 200cc capacity, Tiny tea cups as the size of half walnuts, usually 4 pieces in one set. The tea pot and cups can be made of china, but more usually, it is made of the Chinese special material called "Zi Sha" (purple sand pottery). (Source from:http://tea.timzhao.com/ctcom/METHOD/gongfu.html)