Loewe also commissioned pieces from numerous Asian talents, including architect Wang Shu, ceramic artist Lu Bin, and artists Chen Min and Deng Xiping from China; South Korea's architect Minsuk Cho ...

Ceramic tea set glazing affects health benefits of tea, finds new study. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 09 / 230911141017.htm ...

Chanoyu (literally, “hot water for tea”), or the practice of preparing and serving matcha, powdered green tea, gained popularity in the sixteenth century. Japanese tea practitioners initially used ...

Steeped in Admiration: Tracing a Ceramic Tea Jar’s Journey From Factory to Fame “Chigusa and the Art of Tea” at the Sackler Gallery explores how a humble vessel became a revered object among ...

Before American trade with China became so fraught, the United States couldn't wait to get their hands on Chinese products. Tea. Porcelain. Silk. Spices. In the wake of the American Revolution, the ...

So-called Böttger porcelain denotes the early years of production from 1713 until Böttger’s death in 1719, but versions of his hard-paste porcelain continued in use until the 1730s. Japanese ...

Tea contains flavonoids such as catechins, which have numerous health benefits. Now, researchers from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, reveal that the glazing on ceramic tea sets plays a ...

By the time the Victorians came to culturally dominate the West and its colonies in the mid-19th century, ceramic animals reflected a decidedly more domesticated cast.

About 50 guests enjoyed four types of tea: a caffeinated royal blend, an herbal rooibos tea, a home grown blend Ynda made herself from passionfruit leaves, lemon balm, hibiscus flowers and lemongrass, ...

At Xu's booth, porcelain ware bearing anthropomorphic pandas cooking tea, and playing mahjong or instruments, as well as rabbits wearing a silk robe resembling figures on the murals in the Mogao ...

Toronto-based ceramist Janet Macpherson makes porcelain animals, human body parts and hybrids of both in pristine white ceramic form. They're elegant, endearing and a bit eerie — and for her A ...