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<p>[QUOTE="lauragarnet, post: 60537, member: 105"]They are crouching tiger, hidden dragon teapots!</p><p>Can't find any decorated on the outside like yours are, and didn't even <i>try</i> to match the marks. Maybe someone else will have better luck with that.</p><p><br /></p><p>"The phrase Crouching Tiger / Hidden Dragon is a Chinese proverb roughly translates to mean “talented or dangerous person hidden from view”. The teapot with a tiger and dragon figurine is given as a gift to someone who you believe still has much potential but hasn’t yet achieved all of it yet."</p><p><a href="http://www.8asians.com/2011/11/01/the-chinese-mythology-of-dragons-and-tigers/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.8asians.com/2011/11/01/the-chinese-mythology-of-dragons-and-tigers/" rel="nofollow">http://www.8asians.com/2011/11/01/the-chinese-mythology-of-dragons-and-tigers/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Googling finds some new ones and some old ones, but didn't see any as fancy as yours are.</p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/#q=crouching+tiger+hidden+dragon+yixing" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/#q=crouching+tiger+hidden+dragon+yixing" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/#q=crouching+tiger+hidden+dragon+yixing</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lauragarnet, post: 60537, member: 105"]They are crouching tiger, hidden dragon teapots! Can't find any decorated on the outside like yours are, and didn't even [I]try[/I] to match the marks. Maybe someone else will have better luck with that. "The phrase Crouching Tiger / Hidden Dragon is a Chinese proverb roughly translates to mean “talented or dangerous person hidden from view”. The teapot with a tiger and dragon figurine is given as a gift to someone who you believe still has much potential but hasn’t yet achieved all of it yet." [URL]http://www.8asians.com/2011/11/01/the-chinese-mythology-of-dragons-and-tigers/[/URL] Googling finds some new ones and some old ones, but didn't see any as fancy as yours are. [URL]https://www.google.com/#q=crouching+tiger+hidden+dragon+yixing[/URL][/QUOTE]
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