Featured More Peranakan Porcelain...

A month ago, I spent several weeks overseas, and when I got back, I'd brought with me a smattering of Peranakan Chinese porcelain.

I recently got myself a new display cabinet, so I've spent the last week or so moving my collection into it, rearranging it, and trying to find space for all the new pieces I've added.

Here's a set of three matching "chupu" (covered soup-bowls) that I bought overseas...



These are almost certainly reproductions from the late-1900s (1970s/80s and onwards), but they are faithful copies of the real deal, which were made back in the late 19th century.

I also bought this -- an antique pink-and-white Peranakan rice-bowl. By sheer happenstance, I already had the matching teacup, plate, and spoon, at home! So obviously I had to buy it...

 

i blinking LOVE those first 3....i mean LOVE......its those deliberately ? patchy colours i think

 

A beauty.

Everything for an enjoyable meal.

 

Beautiful pieces.

 

Traditionally they were handpainted, which is what counts for that kinda mottled, uneven look on the paintwork.

 

They make the food say Eat Me.

 

They are beautiful! I like the matching group that you have accidentally collected!

 

The pink and white is a recognised style of Peranakan porcelain. I have seen ENTIRE DINNER SETS in this style (which could cost untold tens of thousands of dollars!!!), but that is EXTREMELY rare, and would've been collected over the course of decades, if not inherited from ancestors.

I consider myself lucky to have just the one little set.