★ Collection items will be released one after another! Please look forward to it! This is an elegant masterpiece that can be used for your study, home interior, collection, or for yourself, and it will not be outdone by other tea utensils. It will become an antique whose value will increase even more over the years! Type: Blue and White Doucai Size: Height 45mm x Mouth Diameter 86mm x Bottom Diameter 35mm Capacity: 90ml Introduction: One of the decorative methods for porcelain that originated in China, a technique of the Five Colors (Akae/Iroe in Japan) porcelain. The outline of the pattern is drawn beforehand with underglaze painting, and after glazing and firing, various overglaze paints are applied again following the outline of the underglaze painting. Therefore, the painted patterns are carefully and elegantly expressed. This technique was first attempted and established in the Chenghua era (1465-87) of the Ming Dynasty at the Jingdezhen kiln (Jiangxi Province), and was subsequently produced at successive official kilns under the Ming Dynasty. There is a theory that Doucai (meaning "contending colors") comes from the fact that its color tone resembles that of green beans. The so-called Chenghua Doucai of the Jingdezhen kiln has very few remaining pieces, and it gained popularity in the Qing Dynasty from the 17th century onwards, and its reputation has not diminished to this day. There are many excellent pieces of small items such as (bowls), (jars), (vases), and (goblets). On the other hand, in the official kilns of the Qing Dynasty, in the Yongzheng era (1723-35), in addition to imitations of Chenghua Doucai, they created Doucai with rich colors that seemed to compete with each other, and this was named Toucai (meaning "fighting colors").