Total are 13 pieces
This beautiful cups same the picture.
It comes from "Jingdezhen" China.
You'll receive it without the box. Because I must wrap it for each item. It is really a recommended collection!
Whenever people speak of "Jingdezhen", they will think of its exquisite and noted porcelain wares. CHINA both means the country and porcelain in English. Jingdezhen ceramics has a long history of more than 2000 years. As early as the Warring State Period, pottery was started in Jingdezhen. In the Tang Dynasty, its porcelain industry began to take shape.
Jingdezhen was formerly named Changnan and Jingdezhen porcelain industry was quite developed in the Song Dynasty. In the 1st year of the Northern Song Dynasty, the emperor Song Zhenzong appreciated the porcelain for it royal use so much that it was renamed Jingdezhen (Jingde town), Jingde was the name of the reign in the Northern Song Dynasty. Then, emperors through the dynasties afterwards established "Imperial Kiln" or "Official Kiln" in Jingdezhen to specially make porcelain for royal use or for diplomatic gifts. Jingdezhen was one of the Four Major Towns in Ancient China. It is the birthplace of the Chinese porcelain industry and it dominates the highlight of ceramic arts kingdom in the ceramic historical development.
The reason why Jindezhen enjoys such a high reputation is because its porcelain is characterized by the terms of "as white as jade, as thin as paper, as bright as mirror, and as resonant as chime." Jingdezhen traditional porcelain including blue and white, rice pattern, family rose, color glazed ware and porcelain sculpture has elegant shape and rich decoration, which fully reflect the profound meaning of the Chinese people.
Jingdezhen porcelain is treasured as the bright pearl of human art palace. As early as the 17th century, the European imperial palace was proud of the collection of Jingdezhen porcelain wares.
In order to carry forward Jingdezhen ceramic arts and culture, colorful and splendid ceramic works and handicrafts, which represented the thousands of years-old ceramic culture of the porcelain capital of China, were spread to all parts of the world along with the Silk Road, Jingdezhen, as a gift of the nature, has contributed varied ceramic culture with thousands of years of history to the world's people in the past 20 centuries so as to meet the demand of their to to its ceramics.