Beautiful Pottery

Last week I went to a famous "art street", here in Shanghai, to see what the Chinese artists were up to, overall it was not my cup of tea, a lot of suggestive (sex sells I guess) oil paintings that were meant to be provocative but ended up being uninteresting to me.  After dashing in and out of various galleries to view some art I decided to seek out the pottery "art".  I do love a good ceramic bowl!  While most of the items were out of my price range I did find these two lovely mugs, fired with a natural sand that turns bright colors when fired in intense heat.

The inside is as beautiful as the outside, perhaps even more so.  The inside of the red mug has blue specks, which is difficult to see but you can see the inside of the brown mug with peacock blue and yellow spots! I love the gently curved lip, reminding me of a flower and the thinness of the pottery attests to it's quality, in my opinion.  A set of 8 would be nice, however I have many mugs.  The four mugs from Tuscany that my sister bought me. My first handcrafted mug that I bought for my first apartment(yes it has a chip, but I can't let it go) Four hand thrown mugs from a craft fair in NY bought many years ago that I could not live without. And I am sure the list goes on.  I know I should not buy another mug, but you may be able to agree with me, these two new ones were much too beautiful to leave behind.