Tableware Shapes in Mulberry China Collections: Pt. 2

Video Transcript

"And the other thing you find is soup terrains, soup and also a sauce terrain like this with covers and a ladle. This whole was cut to put your ladle in to scoop out your sauce so that is another particular shape you can collect. You can move on to these teapots. These teapots are octangular. They have 8 size to them and they are pretty much uniform and the style that they made for this small one. As you can see here, this is a larger octangular shape to it but basically some of them are flat and some are footed. This is a shape that is very typical of that period. The sugar bowls are very large and you might think this is unusual but during that period sugar was a commodity that was harder to acquire and not as available as it is today. You will see all the sugar bowls and here is 3 examples of sugar bowls with little variation in the shape but not much. So you have your teapot and your sugar bowl and the creamers. You can look at some examples that I have here. These 2 are about the same size. You can see the variation and condition. This is a Korean pattern but this is a creamer that is really discolored and doesn't have anywhere the value that this creamer does. So there is 2 sizes and shapes and comes in a larger size here. This is also Korean pattern. It is almost the size of a milk pitcher so this is another shape to look for when you are collecting. Naturally the larger sizes are going to be more expensive than the smaller size. This particular creamer will be more expensive than this one and you can see it is really obvious because of the condition."