Does anyone have any pieces of Ru school/style porcelain?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_ceramics#Ru_ware

Someone in my area (Verdant Tea/David Duckler) imported some cups and a pot, and it is STUNNING. Pictures don’t do it justice…it’s a very tactile experience. The pieces I’ve seen and held feel thick, like a feather pillow, but the finish is smooth as eggshell and creamy in color. You can just see the crackles in the new ones; the used cups he showed me are super rich, more like the pictures in the article. The tea darkens and oxidizes the glaze crackles and banishes the milky finish.

Some of it can be seen at verdanttea.com (http://verdanttea.com/shop/tea-wares/hand-made-blue-ruci-porcelain-cup/)

This is the cup I managed to buy.
Sorry for the poor picture quality; my real camera is out of commission, so I had to make do with iPad shenanigans.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/eblackstar/401791f4.jpg

"Ru" teawares

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