In this decadent chocolate set, the porcelain pieces are eroded by yeast during the slip-casting process and seem to crumble away, evoking the fragile ghost of Marie Antoinette delicately drinking chocolate in her ornate salon.
Detailed Features
● Type: Table set
● Dimensions: x1 Chocolate pot: 22.5 H x 22.5 Ø cm;
x4 Cups: 10 H x 7.5 Ø cm;
x4 Saucers: 1 H x 14 Ø cm;
x1 Sugar bowl: 9 H x 11 Ø cm
● Material: Porcelain
● Date: 2016
Takeshi Kitamura, from The Ateliers of Wonders series Rinko Kawauchi, Takeshi Kitamura Weaver
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