Dancing Cranes Infuser Mug

Hand-crafted porcelain mug with dancing cranes amid a Chinese landscape, with porcelain strainer insert and matching lid. The crane has held a place of supreme importance in Chinese and Japanese artistic tradition for thousands of years, a symbol of longevity, immortality and moral rectitude associated in Daoist belief with the passage between the earthly and heavenly realms, and depicted with extraordinary frequency in paintings, textiles, ceramics and lacquerwork across the centuries. The combination of cranes in a landscape setting with the ritual of loose-leaf tea-making connects two of the most deeply rooted aesthetic traditions of East Asian culture, in which the preparation and enjoyment of tea has long been understood as a practice of mindfulness and refined sensory attention. A beautiful and functional gift for any admirer of East Asian art or for anyone who believes that the right vessel makes even an ordinary cup of tea into something worth pausing for.

Colour: Multicoloured
Porcelain
14.5 x 7.5cm dia, 10.5cm dia including handle
Capacity 300ml
Dishwasher and microwave safe