Japanese Imari

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Glassware encompasses everything from tableware to drinking ware and decorative ware. To describe each and every item would take a long time. Glassware has been used for centuries to serve food and drink. Today, glassware remains a pivotal element in our daily existence.

Drinking ware which include drinking glasses ranging from cocktail glasses to various goblets, wine glasses and champagne glasses, are integral when entertaining. Let us look into the vast foray of cups, paying specific attention to teacups, coffee cups and mugs.

A teacup is a small apparatus that is handled with the thumb and fingers, one or two at a time. Many are created using ceramic, although those made from glass are widely used around the world. A teacup comes primarily in a set, inclusive of a saucer. A good teacup set comes with its own matching teapot, jug for creamer and milk and also a sugar bowl with a lid. As a basis of comparison, teacups are usually more ample and diminutive than coffee cups, as tea is a beverage meant to be sipped slowly.

Teacups connoisseurs usually covet those which are unique in designs and forms, and always with the matching saucers. In fact, a complete teaset also has teaspoons which bear similar designs to the cups and saucers.

One of the original teacups created for drinking purposes were first discovered in Europe, and were imported from Japan's Imari port. In the Far East, teacups are more like mini-bowls, as they do not possess handles. The ones inspired by the Europeans' Meissen, also did not have handles attached.

Teacups used by the Chinese are even smaller than their Japanese counterparts, and can hold only a minuscule amount of tea. These teacups were meant to be used together with the legendary Yi Xing and Gaiwan teapots.

Modern teacups are wider and easier to maneuver.

Coffee cups were traditionally made from glazed ceramic, although just like contemporary tea cups, coffee cups are also popular in glass. A typical coffee cup has an expansive single handle, which enables the drinker to hold the cup carefully while the beverage inside is piping hot. Coffee cups made of glass are thicker, so that they would not break easily when washed.

Espresso and cappuccino cups are used for drinking specific types of coffee, which explains their smaller dimensions. Coffee cups are also widely used as promotional items and available with many slogans and designs, targeted for the mass market. After dinner coffee cups are also accompanied by tiny coffee spoons. Ones which are made of glass are fast becoming coveted items.

Mugs were created sturdier than both tea and coffee cups and utilized to drink a multitude of hot beverages from cocoa to chocolate. Mugs are built latger, and come with handles to house a bigger amount of liquids. Mugs are not used for formal dining however, as they are perceived to be more casual drinking ware.

Modern day mugs are made from bone china, porcelain or earthenware, but the ones made from strengthened glass, such as those from Pyrex have also become drinking staples in many homes.

DiscountMugs.com is a large distribution company based in Miami, Florida. They are web-based and factory-direct which allows them to keep prices lower than the rest of the competition. They also have a huge selection of promotional products from wine glasses and shot glasses to beer mugs and coffee mugs.

Antique Lamps for the English Look

In the world of interior design, the “English Look" has never been out of fashion, with comfortable, slightly worn, eclectic interiors. 

The room will be a rather mixed style with the contents of furniture, rugs and accumulated collections having been assembled over generations with artifacts brought home from India, Africa and other parts of the old British Empire.

The look, in general, will have a rather “shabby chicness” about it, although entirely pleasing to the eye, inviting and comfortable.  Furniture will not have perfect finishes; rugs will be a mixture of oriental, the colours of which have long since faded to pastels.  The walls, with the look full blown, will be crammed with paintings, prints, porcelain and pottery, mirrors and faded family photos all hanging on warm and friendly wallpaper, the windows draped with curtains of floral printed fabrics.

The ideal English look must have a fireplace for cold winter days and nights, with polished brass fire irons, fire screen and shaped fender, all gleaming in the fire light.

In addition, there are the lamps! and many of them!  Beautiful lamps will grace every table & sideboard.  Classic lamps with sumptuous, silk shade treatments such as knife and box pleating, shedding soft light around a room all aglow.

The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co, with a range of lamps ideally suited to compliment the perfect English look, can supply English lamps, French, Chinese and Japanese lamps in bright Imari colours, all authentic to the English look interior.

This cosy look, from a purely psychological point of view, is undoubtedly the perfect interior for the passionate collector, with endless scope for shelves of transfer decorated pottery, Staffordshire figures, Mason’s ironstone, snuff boxes, miniatures, silver and tea caddies, all lovingly displayed as a pleasing clutter, the accumulated collecting of two or three lifetimes.  These collections perhaps arranged around a little accent lamp, bringing a special glow to silver and wax polished wood.

                       

The English country style room is a real treasure, giving absolute freedom to choose from a wide range of periods.  This allows for the sheer pleasure of living in a space that never stops bringing joy to the heart.  This warm, contented decoration says “HOME” upon entering the room, with springtime, a particular joy, with vases filled with fresh, garden flowers.

 You are invited to visit The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co’s web site at

www.antiquelampshop.com

© The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co 2008

About the Author

Maurice Robertson, principal of The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co , has had a lifetime’s association with antique porcelain and pottery. From an early age he recalls picking up tea cups, looking for the mark on the base, discerning the maker.

His commercial experience spans a period of 40 years. This includes 25 years as an international specialist dealer for the gallery formerly known as "The Antique Porcelain Gallery", in Sydney’s Martin Place and as a valuer to the Australian Commonwealth Government’s Incentive to the Arts Scheme.

His long experience with antique ceramics and glass also includes dealing with leading museums and numerous international private collections.

Extending his ceramics expertise into the quality table lamps seen on the company’s site, he is well known to local and international interior designers who have included many of his table lamps in their projects and has also supplied items of national interest to the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister.

what do these japanese baby names mean?

they are akiko Imari Junko and Ai thank you please

Ai : From Japanese 愛 "love, affection" or 藍 "indigo".
Akiko: From Japanese 晶 (aki) "sparkle", 明 (aki) "bright" or 秋 (aki) "autumn" combined with 子 (ko) "child".
Junko: From Japanese 順 (jun) "obedient" or 純 (jun) "genuine, pure" combined with 子 (ko) "child".

Imari does not come up as a person's name but I can find references to it as a city name in Japan . Imari (伊万里市, Imari-shi?) is a city located in Saga Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū, Japan. Imari is most notable because of Imari porcelain,

Big Red Barn Summer Show Attracts Big Buying Crowd
:Franks Promotions filled its hall with exhibitors offering many styles and periods of antiques and home décor for the fifth time at the Big Red Barn Summer Antiques show, June 26 and 27. Manager and co-owner Susan Franks said she was thrilled with the response to this slightly smaller version of the company's famous antiques show.

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