YUET TUNG PORCELAINS
Founded in 1928, Yuet Tung is the last company in Hong Kong to produce hand-painted porcelain – a vanishing trade where the average age of the craftsmen is 72.
A third generation family business, YT supplies Hong Kong’s major hotels with bespoke ranges, and British nobility and Vatican bishops with dinner services emblazoned with coats of arms and family crests. The factory, in Kowloon Bay, is a trove of ceramic treasures, with vases, ginger jars, dishes, cups and plant pots piled from floor to ceiling.
See our creation of a pair of beautifully hand-crafted bone-china tea cups; with a unique Poppy butterfly bloom design created for Babaobox, hand-gilded with a delicate 18 carat gold rim. Inspired by the beauty and beastial duality of the poppy flower, the Poppy teacups take cultural, historical and aesthetic influences on the theme of Obsession and the potent colour Red.
In a world obsessed with digital gadgets and social media, the coupling tea cups encourage human interaction and conversation; a moment of Zen and the luxury of tea-drinking and intimate pastime with a friend.
Babaobox, meaning ''treasure chest' in Chinese, is a multi-format album and objects of design, art, lifestyle and fashion produced in exclusive numbered limited editions of 400.
Babaobox collaborates with tastemakers, cultural leaders and inspiring thinkers to curate items, made exclusively; each with extraordinary stories based on a common theme.
‘It was an honour to work with the incredible artisans of Yuet Tung Porcelains, I still remember the adrenaline I felt on my visit for the first time, riding that elevator up the industrial building in search of this legendary workshop founded in 1928.’
