Meanwhile, an American company is selling an extensive collection of colourful, handpainted ceramic mugs with 150 different hidden animal figures inside. Animugs - designed and handcrafted at the ...

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 ...

The first series was comprised of 32 animals and ran from 1967 to 1973. The second, from 1971 to 1979, was a collection of 24 nursery rhyme characters.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...