I lust after Chinese porcelain. It's so seriously beautiful to me. Sometimes I dream about it. (I know, I know, I'm really weird!) Those beautiful, iconic, hand painted pieces of art that the Chinese use ever so casually as their dinnerware. Gold edged, milky white, delicately patterned or decorated with miniature hand-painted scenes of flying dragons or pagodas on lonely mountains, these gleaming smooth spoons, bowls and plates always grab me by the throat. I WANT THEM ALL!
Alas for me (but luckily for my 老公!), my house is too small (but of course it is, I live in Hong Kong!) and my pocketbook too limited to buy all the beautiful chinese porcelain that I find. So most of the time I just stare at the porcelain loveliness and drool.
However, we also like to poke around the old and second hand shops in Hong Kong and every once in a while we score some beautiful old porcelain ware, thrown out by their modern ex-owners (to be replaced by BPA infused designer plasticware). We, on the other hand, a family of luddites confessed, lovingly scoop home and squirrel away our treasures. Recently we discovered a stash of lovely old Chinese Porcelain Spoons or 中式湯匙...
