One Hundred Blooms® devotes itself to expressing the connection between tableware and users.
The pleasure of sight, the grain beneath touch,
the stirring of inner senses,
jointly weave the communication between human and ware.

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product series: one hundred blooms-Begonia cup

craft origin: jindezhen kiln

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The begonia blossom carries an imagery of refinement, elegance and subtle melancholy.

Admiration and praise for crabapple flowers flourished in the Song Dynasty. Unlike boisterously blooming blossoms, the crabapple’s signature lush green leaves paired with delicate fading pink petals aligned perfectly with the refined aesthetic taste of the Song literati. In the prosperous capital Bianjing of that era, exquisite compact gardens featured four-lobed crabapple-shaped windows that linked different spaces. Crabapple blossoms dotted the distant vistas, exuding subtle grace, delicate ingenuity and lingering charm.

Su Dongpo once composed a long poem, drawing a parallel between himself and the crabapple blossom:
“She blooms with a soft smile behind the bamboo fence;
Peaches and plums blanketing hills appear coarse and vulgar by comparison.”

At the initial design stage, we spent months refining the structure of the begonia blossom motif. We experimented with shrinking the flower core, connecting stretched stamens to the petal outlines, and adjusting the radially rotating elements around the center, all in pursuit of a flatter, more contemporary aesthetic. Though the line drawings turned out promising, once converted into engraved reliefs and arranged in sequence, they lost their evocative charm at first glance.

We name this elusive charm “Kindling Memories”—a distinctive aura only inherent to classic silhouettes.

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