{"title":"Vivid Colour","description":"\u003cp\u003eStrong colour and clear shapes: Matisse, Kandinsky, Mondrian and more. Art mugs that wake you up before the coffee does.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"henri-matisse-la-gerbe","title":"Henri Matisse: La Gerbe, 1953 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHenri Matisse\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Gerbe\u003c\/em\u003e, 1953\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain in Switzerland, the EU and the United Kingdom\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Gerbe\u003c\/em\u003e (The Sheaf) was completed by Henri Matisse in 1953, the year before his death, when he was eighty-three years old and had been working almost exclusively in cut-outs for a decade. Unable to stand at an easel, Matisse directed his assistants from a wheelchair or his bed, working at a scale and with a freedom that belied his physical circumstances. The cut-out method — scissors moving through sheets of paper painted in pure gouache — had become, in his own words, \"cutting directly into colour,\" an act closer to sculpting than to painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Gerbe\u003c\/em\u003e is among the largest and most exuberant of the late cut-outs: leaf and frond forms in vivid greens, blacks, and whites fan outward like a burst of botanical energy. It was first published in the final issue of the journal \u003cem\u003eVerve\u003c\/em\u003e dedicated to Matisse's last works (1950–54) and subsequently reproduced as a lithograph. The composition distils Matisse's lifelong preoccupation with the decorative — not as ornament but as a primary expressive mode, as serious and as demanding as any other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-series\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the same series:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-icarus\"\u003eIcarus, 1947\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-self-portrait\"\u003eSelf-Portrait, 1930\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-the-snail\"\u003eThe Snail, 1953\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-blue-nude-ii-mug\"\u003eBlue Nude II, 1952\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-nuit-de-noel-christmas-night-mug\"\u003eNuit de Noël, 1952\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-les-velours-mug\"\u003eLes Velours, 1947\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/matisse-la-danse-mug\"\u003eLa Danse, 1909\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-la-danse-graveur-mug\"\u003eLa Danse (Barnes Mural), 1933\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenri Matisse, \u003cem\u003eLa Gerbe\u003c\/em\u003e (The Sheaf), 1953, published in \u003cem\u003eVerve: Last Works of Matisse 1950–1954\u003c\/em\u003e. Public domain in Switzerland, the EU and the United Kingdom; Matisse died in 1954. This mug is not sold into the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":57724211593547,"sku":"2aacb779-b3be-4f20-a2c8-410718b83254","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/72b1004b-2693-4492-b1ab-96e5ad8821ed.jpg?v=1787638566"},{"product_id":"henri-matisse-icarus","title":"Henri Matisse: Icarus, 1947 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHenri Matisse\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIcarus\u003c\/em\u003e, 1947\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain in Switzerland, the EU and the United Kingdom\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 1943 and 1947, while recovering from major surgery and largely confined to his rooms in Vence, Henri Matisse worked almost entirely with scissors. Sheets of paper were painted in flat gouache to his instruction; he then cut into them directly, drawing with the blade rather than the pencil — \"cutting directly into colour,\" as he put it. \u003cem\u003eJazz\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Tériade in Paris in 1947, was the first public appearance of the method: twenty plates printed in pochoir, each colour brushed through a stencil in the same gouache tones Matisse had cut, interleaved with pages reproducing his own large handwriting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIcarus\u003c\/em\u003e is plate VIII. A dark figure falls against a field of deep blue, the heart a single red disc, yellow stars scattered around it — one of them cut so freely that it runs off the blue and onto the bare paper. The myth of the boy who flew too near the sun becomes, in Matisse's hands, not a warning but an image of flight itself. Facing the plate in the book, on page 54, Matisse asks in his own hand: \u003cem\u003e« Ne devrait-on pas faire accomplir un grand voyage en avion aux jeunes gens ayant terminé leurs études ? »\u003c\/em\u003e — \"Should not young people who have finished their studies be sent on a great journey by aeroplane?\" The mug carries the plate alone; the fourth product image shows the opening it comes from, handwriting and all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-series\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the same series:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-la-gerbe\"\u003eLa Gerbe, 1953\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-self-portrait\"\u003eSelf-Portrait, 1930\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-the-snail\"\u003eThe Snail, 1953\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-blue-nude-ii-mug\"\u003eBlue Nude II, 1952\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-nuit-de-noel-christmas-night-mug\"\u003eNuit de Noël, 1952\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-les-velours-mug\"\u003eLes Velours, 1947\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/matisse-la-danse-mug\"\u003eLa Danse, 1909\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-la-danse-graveur-mug\"\u003eLa Danse (Barnes Mural), 1933\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenri Matisse, \u003cem\u003eIcare\u003c\/em\u003e, plate VIII from \u003cem\u003eJazz\u003c\/em\u003e, Paris, Tériade, 1947; pochoir. Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Réserve des livres rares, RES G-Z-165. Source gallica.bnf.fr \/ Bibliothèque nationale de France. Public domain in Switzerland, the EU and the United Kingdom; Matisse died in 1954. This mug is not sold into the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":57724211560779,"sku":"955b2c1a-14b4-47be-8687-09ca91b4cf2a","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/e2bbda85-da13-485c-8ccb-7a86da4f8a26.jpg?v=1787674995"},{"product_id":"henri-matisse-the-snail","title":"Henri Matisse: The Snail, 1953 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHenri Matisse\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Snail\u003c\/em\u003e, 1953\u003cbr\u003elithograph\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain in Switzerland, the EU and the United Kingdom\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 1948, Matisse could no longer stand at an easel. Confined to his bed following surgery, he turned to scissors and painted paper — and produced some of the most joyful work of his life. \u003cem\u003eL'Escargot\u003c\/em\u003e (The Snail), made in 1953 at the Hôtel Régina in Nice, is among the last and most luminous of these cut-outs: a spiral of pure colour that radiates outward with quiet authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lithograph edition was published in 1958 by Mourlot Frères of Paris for \u003cem\u003eVerve\u003c\/em\u003e magazine (Vol. IX, No. 35\/36), under the title \u003cem\u003eThe Last Works of Henri Matisse\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Tériade. The original is held in the Tate Modern, London. This mug reproduces the 1958 Mourlot lithograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-series\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the same series:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-la-gerbe\"\u003eLa Gerbe, 1953\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-icarus\"\u003eIcarus, 1947\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-self-portrait\"\u003eSelf-Portrait, 1930\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-blue-nude-ii-mug\"\u003eBlue Nude II, 1952\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-nuit-de-noel-christmas-night-mug\"\u003eNuit de Noël, 1952\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-les-velours-mug\"\u003eLes Velours, 1947\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/matisse-la-danse-mug\"\u003eLa Danse, 1909\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-la-danse-graveur-mug\"\u003eLa Danse (Barnes Mural), 1933\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenri Matisse, \u003cem\u003eL'Escargot\u003c\/em\u003e, 1953; colour lithograph, Mourlot Frères for \u003cem\u003eVerve\u003c\/em\u003e vol. IX, no. 35\/36, 1958. Public domain in Switzerland, the EU and the United Kingdom; Matisse died in 1954. This mug is not sold into the United States. Matisse's name identifies the historical artwork; it does not suggest endorsement or affiliation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":57724211691851,"sku":"230955c3-a882-41c4-9593-af8717a59117","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/8a5dc929-f8a0-4714-9852-898ed1e92dde.jpg?v=1786709341"},{"product_id":"ski-jumping-couple-mug","title":"Francisco Tamagno: Chamonix Ski Jumpers, 1900 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFrancisco Tamagno\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eChamonix Ski Jumpers\u003c\/em\u003e, 1900\u003cbr\u003echromolithographic poster for the P, 99.2 × 61.2 cm\u003cbr\u003einv. 000416-C\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eA couple caught mid-jump, suspended above a snow slope in the posture of early ski jumping. The technique and the equipment of 1900 required a particular kind of courage: bindings were primitive and protective clothing nearly non-existent. Winter sport as exhilarating modernity, the mountain as playground rather than obstacle, the couple in flight as an emblem of the new century's optimism about what a body could do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe image is the picture field of a chromolithographic poster, \u003cem\u003eChamonix — Mont-Blanc\u003c\/em\u003e, signed \u003cem\u003eTamagno\u003c\/em\u003e at the lower left and printed by Imp. Émile Pécaud \u0026amp; Cie in Paris. It was made for the \u003cstrong\u003eP.L.M.\u003c\/strong\u003e, the Paris–Lyon–Méditerranée railway — and this edition is in English. It announces \u003cem\u003eInternational Contests of Skis, Bobsleighs, Tobogans\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eMt Blanc Challenge Cup\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eInternational Skating Competitions\u003c\/em\u003e, promises express trains with through carriages, and directs enquiries to the P.L.M. company's offices at 179–180 Piccadilly, London, or to the syndicate at Chamonix. The sheet was printed to sell the Alps to British travellers, and it says so in every line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancisco Nicolas Tamagno (1851–1933) was an Italian-born graphic artist who worked principally in France. His poster belongs to the golden age of French chromolithography, when the medium was being pushed to its limits of colour and graphic invention by artists including Mucha, Chéret and Toulouse-Lautrec. The mug carries the picture field alone, without the lettering; the fourth product image shows the whole sheet with the printed part marked, so the crop is visible for what it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancisco Nicolas Tamagno, detail from \u003cem\u003eChamonix — Mont-Blanc\u003c\/em\u003e, chromolithographic poster for the P.L.M., printed by Imp. Émile Pécaud \u0026amp; Cie, Paris. Public domain. The complete sheet reproduced in the gallery is the copy in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona — colour lithograph, 99.2 × 61.2 cm, inv. 000416-C, gift of Joan Vidal Ventosa, 1927 — which the museum dates c. 1900–1910 and publishes as public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":57723540635979,"sku":"eeb41ec4-51f4-4378-a0fe-4c34222895ac","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/SkiJumping_Mug_front_v3.jpg?v=1787127734"},{"product_id":"henri-matisse-nuit-de-noel-christmas-night-mug","title":"Henri Matisse: Nuit de Noël, 1952 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHenri Matisse\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNuit de Noël\u003c\/em\u003e, 1952\u003cbr\u003elithograph 1958\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain in Switzerland, the EU and the United Kingdom\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1952, \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e magazine commissioned Henri Matisse to design a stained-glass window for its New York offices — a commission he accepted at the age of eighty-two, working from his apartment in Nice where illness had largely confined him for the previous decade. The resulting design, \u003cem\u003eNuit de Noël\u003c\/em\u003e (Christmas Night), was completed in 1952 and translated into glass the following year. Like all of Matisse's late work, it was made using the cut-out technique: shapes cut from paper painted in pure gouache, then arranged and rearranged until the composition resolved itself. The design was subsequently issued as a lithograph, in editions of 1951 and 1958, reproducing the brilliant yellows and blues of the stained glass in a form that could be widely distributed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNuit de Noël\u003c\/em\u003e is a composition of extraordinary simplicity and radiance: abstract leaf and star forms in saturated yellow against a ground of deep blue, the whole suggesting candlelight, cold sky, and the particular stillness of the Christmas season without depicting any of them directly. It is Matisse at his most distilled — the reduction of a complex visual idea to its irreducible essentials — and it demonstrates that the cut-out method, which had begun as a practical adaptation to physical limitation, had become the most expressive instrument of his final years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-series\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the same series:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-la-gerbe\"\u003eLa Gerbe, 1953\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-icarus\"\u003eIcarus, 1947\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-self-portrait\"\u003eSelf-Portrait, 1930\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-the-snail\"\u003eThe Snail, 1953\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-blue-nude-ii-mug\"\u003eBlue Nude II, 1952\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-les-velours-mug\"\u003eLes Velours, 1947\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/matisse-la-danse-mug\"\u003eLa Danse, 1909\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-la-danse-graveur-mug\"\u003eLa Danse (Barnes Mural), 1933\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenri Matisse, \u003cem\u003eNuit de Noël\u003c\/em\u003e (Christmas Night), maquette 1952, lithograph 1958. Public domain in Switzerland, the EU and the United Kingdom; Matisse died in 1954. This mug is not sold into the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":57723491189067,"sku":"b0e4cc5c-dd14-40ca-8b7a-b4eacea5133f","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/ef928290-421e-4b91-afd2-d4b91d117f00.jpg?v=1786719984"},{"product_id":"rogier-van-der-weyden-adoration-magi-mug","title":"Rogier van der Weyden: Adoration of the Magi, 1455 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRogier van der Weyden\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAdoration of the Magi\u003c\/em\u003e, 1455\u003cbr\u003eoil on oak panel\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree kings — one kneeling, his crown set down beside him, two standing — present their gifts to the Christ Child held by the Virgin. The figures are individuated, their costumes described with a jeweller's precision; the ruin in which the Nativity takes place opens onto a landscape behind, connecting the intimate foreground to a world of historical and cosmic depth. It is a composition that manages reverence and ceremony without stiffness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the central panel of the \u003cem\u003eColumba Altarpiece\u003c\/em\u003e by Rogier van der Weyden (c. 1399–1464), the dominant painter of the Netherlandish school in the generation after Jan van Eyck. Named after the Church of St Columba in Cologne, for whose Marienkapelle it was commissioned between about 1455 and 1462, the triptych depicts the Annunciation, the Adoration of the Magi and the Presentation in the Temple across its three wings, each rendered with the psychological intensity and technical command that distinguish Van der Weyden from his contemporaries. The altarpiece is today one of the great treasures of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRogier van der Weyden, \u003cem\u003eColumba Altarpiece\u003c\/em\u003e (central panel: Adoration of the Magi), c. 1455–1462, oil on oak panel. Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":56856454627659,"sku":"5ea09cd5-5ecf-4992-ab10-683599b0c472","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/Weyden_Mug_front_v3.jpg?v=1787125573"},{"product_id":"kandinsky-concentric-rings-mug","title":"Wassily Kandinsky: Concentric Rings, 1913 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWassily Kandinsky\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eConcentric Rings\u003c\/em\u003e, 1913\u003cbr\u003ewatercolour, 23.9 × 31.5 cm\u003cbr\u003eLenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Gabriele Münter Stiftung 1957, GMS 446\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003eOpen-access image released by the museum under CC0 1\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eA grid of squares, each holding a target of coloured rings in a different combination. It is not a finished painting but an investigation — a systematic test of how colours behave when placed next to one another — and it is simultaneously a scientific document and an object of remarkable visual intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) made \u003cem\u003eFarbstudie – Quadrate mit konzentrischen Ringen\u003c\/em\u003e in 1913, at a moment of decisive transition. He had recently completed \u003cem\u003eÜber das Geistige in der Kunst\u003c\/em\u003e, the text in which he argued that colour and form could act directly on the viewer's emotions without the mediation of representational subject matter. By 1913 he was already producing his first fully abstract compositions — the \u003cem\u003eImprovisations\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCompositions\u003c\/em\u003e — and the colour studies of this period were the systematic groundwork for that leap. Each ring carries what Kandinsky believed was an intrinsic emotional charge; the relationships between them were as carefully considered as the intervals in a musical score. The work is held at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWassily Kandinsky, \u003cem\u003eFarbstudie – Quadrate mit konzentrischen Ringen\u003c\/em\u003e, 1913; watercolour, gouache and crayon, 23.9 × 31.5 cm. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Gabriele Münter Stiftung 1957, GMS 446. 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The work is an extended horizontal composition — some 239 centimetres wide — made from shapes cut from paper painted in gouache, mounted on painted paper ground. The forms Matisse arrived at are simultaneously organic and abstract: they suggest algae, antlers, plant fronds, and purely invented shapes in equal measure, expanding and contracting across the long format with the rhythmic freedom that the scissors-and-paper method permitted. There is no preparatory drawing, no correction: the cutting is the drawing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLes velours\u003c\/em\u003e entered the Kunstmuseum Basel in 1954, where it remains. Its scale makes it primarily a work for institutional experience, but the individual forms translate with surprising vitality to smaller formats — their internal logic, the relationship between figure and ground, the counterpoint of positive and negative shapes, survives the change of scale. Matisse at eighty was working at a size and with an ambition that younger artists might have envied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-series\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the same series:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-la-gerbe\"\u003eLa Gerbe, 1953\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-icarus\"\u003eIcarus, 1947\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-self-portrait\"\u003eSelf-Portrait, 1930\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-the-snail\"\u003eThe Snail, 1953\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-blue-nude-ii-mug\"\u003eBlue Nude II, 1952\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-nuit-de-noel-christmas-night-mug\"\u003eNuit de Noël, 1952\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/matisse-la-danse-mug\"\u003eLa Danse, 1909\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-la-danse-graveur-mug\"\u003eLa Danse (Barnes Mural), 1933\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenri Matisse, \u003cem\u003eComposition (Les velours)\u003c\/em\u003e, 1947, gouache on paper cutout, mounted on painted paper. Kunstmuseum Basel. Public domain in Switzerland, the EU and the United Kingdom; Matisse died in 1954. This mug is not sold into the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":57724211626315,"sku":"8bef00d6-9498-4c72-9286-ce379037546f","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/LesVelours_Mug_front_v3.jpg?v=1787140187"},{"product_id":"matisse-la-danse-mug","title":"Henri Matisse: La Danse, 1909 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHenri Matisse\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Danse\u003c\/em\u003e, 1909\u003cbr\u003eoil on canvas\u003cbr\u003eMuseum of Modern Art, New York\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain in Switzerland, the EU and the United Kingdom\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenri Matisse painted the first version of \u003cem\u003eLa Danse\u003c\/em\u003e in 1909 as a study for the monumental commission placed by the Russian collector Sergei Shchukin — a work that would hang at the top of the staircase in his Moscow mansion alongside a companion panel, \u003cem\u003eLa Musique\u003c\/em\u003e. The painting shows five figures in a ring, their bodies reduced to bare essentials: pink against green and blue, movement arrested at its most expressive point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe composition has roots in Matisse's own earlier work — a background group of dancing figures appears in \u003cem\u003eLe Bonheur de vivre\u003c\/em\u003e (1906) — but in \u003cem\u003eLa Danse\u003c\/em\u003e everything peripheral has been stripped away. What remains is rhythm, colour, and the suggestion of an energy that predates individual consciousness. The painting entered the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1963.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-series\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the same series:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-la-gerbe\"\u003eLa Gerbe, 1953\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-icarus\"\u003eIcarus, 1947\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-self-portrait\"\u003eSelf-Portrait, 1930\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-the-snail\"\u003eThe Snail, 1953\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-blue-nude-ii-mug\"\u003eBlue Nude II, 1952\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-nuit-de-noel-christmas-night-mug\"\u003eNuit de Noël, 1952\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-les-velours-mug\"\u003eLes Velours, 1947\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-la-danse-graveur-mug\"\u003eLa Danse (Barnes Mural), 1933\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenri Matisse, \u003cem\u003eLa Danse\u003c\/em\u003e (first version), 1909, oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Public domain in Switzerland, the EU and the United Kingdom; Matisse died in 1954. This mug is not sold into the United States. Matisse's name identifies the historical artwork; it does not suggest endorsement or affiliation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":57723308376395,"sku":"fce0c01c-dda1-4ca4-9a41-b7de773baf60","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/eb9eca7a-0104-46f4-a87e-28e7e52f502e.jpg?v=1786720238"},{"product_id":"george-washingtons-coffee-cup-society-of-the-cincinnati-1784","title":"George Washington's Coffee Cup, 1784 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eGeorge Washington's Coffee Cup\u003c\/em\u003e, 1784\u003cbr\u003ePorcelain, H. 2½ in. (6.4 cm)\u003cbr\u003eThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc, inv. 39.18.3\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmerica 250 · Jubilee Edition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/Gemini_Generated_Image_5999r55999r55999_4a4d9d37-9593-4186-9fb3-a89fdfd98dfe.jpg?v=1783343892\" alt=\"America 250 · Jubilee Edition\" style=\"max-width: 180px; width: 100%;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e250 Years. One Cup.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 4 July 2026 the United States turned 250. In the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a small porcelain coffee cup sits quietly — one of 302 pieces that George Washington ordered from China in 1786, used throughout his presidency, and kept at Mount Vernon until his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWashington drank coffee. His household accounts document it. He served guests — diplomats, officers, members of the new government — using this service, in New York, in Philadelphia, at Mount Vernon. The service included several coffee cups. He used them. Which one he held on any given morning, history does not record. But the cup now in the Met is one of those cups. The same service. The same glaze. The same painted figure of Fame with her trumpet, the same Cincinnati eagle beneath her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis re-edition reproduces the cup faithfully — same form, same decoration, same weight in the hand. Made to be used, not displayed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRead the full story: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tazzarte.com\/blogs\/stories\/he-drank-from-this-cup\"\u003eHe Drank From This Cup\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoffee Cup, Chinese, ca. 1784. Porcelain, H. 2½ in. (6.4 cm). Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1939. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 39.18.3. Public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":57766951944523,"sku":"b44b651c-0f25-4f10-81d2-e9163c968702","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/3accdd5e-14ed-4617-8d7c-e6e87172013d.webp?v=1783342226"},{"product_id":"limbourg-brothers-tres-riches-heures-may-mug","title":"Limbourg Brothers: Très Riches Heures (May), 1416 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLimbourg Brothers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrès Riches Heures (May)\u003c\/em\u003e, 1416\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn May 1411, the courtiers of John, Duke of Berry, ride out in splendour. Clad in robes of spring green — the colour of hope and renewal — they wind through the Bois de Vincennes to the sound of trumpets, their horses garlanded, their laughter carrying across the vellum. Rising behind them in the distance, the towers of the Palais de la Cité — the royal palace on the Île de la Cité in Paris, seat of the French crown — gleam silver-white against a sky of lapis blue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is \u003cem\u003eMois de Mai\u003c\/em\u003e from \u003cem\u003eLes Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry\u003c\/em\u003e, the most celebrated illuminated manuscript of the Middle Ages. Painted around 1412–1416 by the Flemish brothers Pol, Herman and Johan Limbourg — three prodigies who died young, their masterwork left unfinished — it depicts the twelve months in scenes of the finest refinement European painting had yet reached. No other medieval book matches its colour, its observation of the natural world, or the sheer joy it takes in human festivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe May folio is its most exuberant page: a world at its most alive, before plague and war and the long shadow of the fifteenth century closed in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe design wraps the cavalcade around the mug. The fourth product image shows the complete original folio — with its gilded outer border and the zodiac calendar arch above, the sun's chariot passing through Gemini — so that what the mug takes and what it leaves are both visible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFolio for May, \u003cem\u003eLes Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry\u003c\/em\u003e, Limbourg Brothers, c. 1412–1416. Musée Condé, Chantilly. Public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":57767477379403,"sku":"9db76b67-49f7-4fe7-86f7-8ce7fc7a1e2f","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/daf2f9b1-e301-4853-a206-f913cdc72070.webp?v=1783200209"},{"product_id":"van-gogh-the-bedroom-1889","title":"Vincent van Gogh: The Bedroom, 1889 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVincent van Gogh (1853-1890)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Bedroom\u003c\/em\u003e, 1889\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas, 73.6 x 92.3 cm\u003cbr\u003eThe Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection, inv. 1926.417\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain; the museum's reproduction is released under CC0\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the most famous bedroom in Western painting. Van Gogh made three versions of his sleeping quarters in the Yellow House at Arles. This is the second, painted in September 1889, nearly a year after the first; a third and smaller version followed at the same time, a gift for his mother and sister.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe set the colours down in a letter to his brother Theo: “the walls pale lilac, the floor in a broken and faded red”, the chairs and bed chrome yellow, the pillows and sheet a pale lemon green, the bedspread blood-red, the washbasin blue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBold colour, thick broken brushwork, lines that rush to the corner — it can read as nervous energy. Van Gogh meant the opposite. He wanted the picture to rest the eye, and believed colour alone could do it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-series\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the same series:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/products\/van-gogh-sunflowers-1887-porcelain-art-mug\"\u003eSunflowers, 1887\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/vincent-van-gogh-irises-detail-1889-porcelain-art-mug\"\u003eIrises (Detail), 1889\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVincent van Gogh, \u003cem\u003eThe Bedroom\u003c\/em\u003e, 1889. Oil on canvas, 73.6 × 92.3 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection, 1926.417. Public domain; the museum’s reproduction is released under CC0.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":58246916604235,"sku":"11e8fcb3-f81c-4a5a-8a3d-992d31cff81f","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/08a96b7e-a585-4a64-8bcb-f1f0e7ce79dd.jpg?v=1787652937"},{"product_id":"piet-mondrian-lozenge-composition-1921-porcelain-art-mug","title":"Piet Mondrian: Lozenge Composition, 1921 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePiet Mondrian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLozenge Composition\u003c\/em\u003e, 1921\u003cbr\u003eoil on canvas, 60 × 60 cm\u003cbr\u003eThe Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eMondrian turned the canvas, not the picture. In 1921 he took a square stretcher, hung it on one corner, and kept the lines inside it strictly upright and level — so the grid runs true to the world while the edges of the painting cross it at forty-five degrees. No line meets a corner; each one simply leaves. He made some seventeen of these diamond paintings and regarded them as among his most demanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year matters. Mondrian had come back to Paris from wartime Holland in 1919, and by 1921 his mature vocabulary had settled: black bands of unequal weight, planes of white and grey, and the three primaries — yellow at the upper left, a small red wedge at the foot, blue closing the right-hand corner. He signed it at the lowest point, where the two bottom edges meet: PM 21.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mug carries the painting whole. Nothing is cropped and nothing is turned: the canvas was lifted off the grey ground of the museum photograph and set on the white of the porcelain, standing on its point at the centre of the front, at the same height as every other work in this collection. The last gallery image shows the photograph it came from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-series\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the same series:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/products\/piet-mondrian-composition-with-red-yellow-and-blue-1927-porcelain-art-mug\"\u003eComposition with Red, Yellow, and Blue, 1927\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePiet Mondrian, \u003cem\u003eLozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray\u003c\/em\u003e, 1921; oil on canvas, 60 × 60 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., 1957.307. Public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58252800655691,"sku":"01bc4191-2e52-499f-8e1d-26155e4f3adc","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/8b0dcde9-7bf2-4355-a1bc-7c4e3b36a3e4.webp?v=1787686480"},{"product_id":"piet-mondrian-composition-with-red-yellow-and-blue-1927-porcelain-art-mug","title":"Piet Mondrian: Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue, 1927 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePiet Mondrian (1872-1944)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eComposition with Red, Yellow, and Blue\u003c\/em\u003e, 1927\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas, 49.5 x 49.5 cm\u003cbr\u003eThe Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection, inv. 1967.215\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain (CC0)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the picture most people mean when they say Mondrian. A square canvas of about fifty centimetres, a few black bands of unequal weight, and three colours that are mixed with nothing: red in the upper left, yellow held in a narrow strip at the right edge, blue lying along the bottom. Everything else is white and grey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe balance is not symmetry. Mondrian set the largest field off centre, gave the left column its own width, and let the yellow run as a sliver rather than a block — so the weight of the small red square at the top is answered by the long blue at the foot. He called this equilibrium, and meant it as a way of seeing rather than a style. By 1927 he had been working at it for nearly a decade in his Paris studio on the rue du Départ, where he arranged the walls, the furniture and the easel by the same rules.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe painting reaches the mug straight. The museum photograph was taken slightly off-axis, so it was rectified from its four corners: the black bands now stand truly upright and level on the porcelain, and the canvas is shown whole, its own worn edges included, at the same height as every other work in this collection. The last gallery image shows the photograph it came from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-series\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the same series:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/products\/piet-mondrian-lozenge-composition-1921-porcelain-art-mug\"\u003eLozenge Composition, 1921\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePiet Mondrian, \u003cem\u003eComposition with Red, Yellow, and Blue\u003c\/em\u003e, 1927; oil on canvas, 49.5 × 49.5 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.215. Public domain (CC0).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58252805112139,"sku":"dd952b5a-9b9d-4281-a5c6-acac7d4d8da3","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/062bef77-bbaa-466d-bbd3-3d312231d4a2.webp?v=1787686690"},{"product_id":"karl-walser-kokyu-player-1908","title":"Karl Walser: Japanese Musician with Kokyū, 1908 — Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:12px 0;margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.55\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:.78em;margin-bottom:8px\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKarl Walser\u003c\/strong\u003e (1877-1943)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eJapanese Musician with Kokyu\u003c\/em\u003e, 1908\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv lang=\"ja\"\u003eカール・ヴァルザー（1877–1943）／胡弓を弾く女性、1908年\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWatercolour over pencil, reproduced in collotype\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSigned and dated lower right: karl walser 1908\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFrom Bernhard Kellermann, \u003cem\u003eSassa yo Yassa. Japanische Taenze\u003c\/em\u003e, Paul Cassirer, Berlin 1920\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:.85em;margin-top:8px\"\u003ePublic domain\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman kneels with the kokyu, the small bowed instrument of the Japanese stage, held upright on her knee. Karl Walser drew the pose in pencil and let the colour fall in afterwards, in patches that never quite fill the outline - which is why the kimono still moves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was in Japan for half a year in 1908, in Yokohama, Tokyo, Kyoto, Ise and Miyazu, and filled sketchbooks with dancers and musicians, watching them from the floor of the room rather than from a seat in a theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalser is being rediscovered in Japan right now: a retrospective of some 150 works opened at the Tokyo Station Gallery in April 2026 and runs at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, until 27 September 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz - 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarl Walser (1877-1943), Japanese Musician with Kokyu, 1908. Collotype plate from Bernhard Kellermann, Sassa yo Yassa. Japanische Taenze, Paul Cassirer, Berlin 1920. Public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58432726499659,"sku":"731401a8-880f-4393-bf6b-2391ad210a1f","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/024abc68-a336-4851-88bb-70517c498239.webp?v=1789019237"}],"url":"https:\/\/tazzarte.com\/collections\/colour-bright-bold.oembed","provider":"Tazzarte","version":"1.0","type":"link"}