{"title":"Greens","description":"\u003cp\u003eForest, meadow and garden greens, from Dürer's turf to Rousseau's jungle. Art mugs for people who love to be outdoors.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"harder-kulm-panorama-swiss-alps-1918","title":"Harder Kulm Panorama: Swiss Alps, 1918 – 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\u003eHarder Kulm Panorama\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSwiss Alps\u003c\/em\u003e, 1918\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\u003eHarder Kulm rises to 1,322 metres directly above Interlaken, and since the funicular opened in 1908 its terrace has offered the most efficient view in the Bernese Oberland: Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau aligned across the valley, Lake Thun and Lake Brienz to either side. This card translates that view into the visual language of its period — a hand-coloured bird's-eye drawing rather than a photograph, with every summit, hamlet, glacier and railway station lettered onto the image itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe type belongs to a Swiss speciality: the panorama card, half landscape and half map, made for a tourism that expected its visitors to know what they were looking at. Altitudes stand beside each peak in the values then current — Jungfrau 4166, Mönch 4105, Eiger 3975 — and the valley is drawn with the Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald branches clearly separated, so that a traveller could plan the next day's excursion from the card alone. Wengen, Mürren, Kleine Scheidegg and the Schynige Platte all appear by name. It is a document of how the Oberland wished to be seen, and it has aged into a portrait of the Alpine tourism that built it.\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\u003ePanorama card no. 3637, \u003cem\u003eBerner-Oberland mit Harderkulm (1325 m)\u003c\/em\u003e, 1918. Artist and publisher unrecorded. Scanned from an original card in the publisher's own collection. 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":57724211495243,"sku":"bcb66801-92d1-4a7b-9546-f7065e6df787","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/HarderKulm_Mug_front.jpg?v=1787052037"},{"product_id":"claude-monet-woman-with-a-parasol-mug","title":"Claude Monet: Woman with a Parasol, 1875 – 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\u003eClaude Monet (1840-1926)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWoman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son\u003c\/em\u003e, 1875\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm (framed 119.4 x 99.7 cm)\u003cbr\u003eNational Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, inv. 1983.1.29\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain; the Gallery states that this object's media is free and in the public domain (NGA Open Access)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaude Monet painted \u003cem\u003eWoman with a Parasol — Madame Monet and Her Son\u003c\/em\u003e in 1875, at a moment when Impressionism was still a contested proposition and the movement's founding figures were engaged in their most urgent experiment with light, colour, and the representation of outdoor experience. The painting shows Monet's wife Camille on a hillside, her son Jean slightly behind and below her; the viewpoint is low, so that the figures are seen against the sky rather than the landscape, the parasol casting its warm shadow across Camille's face and dress. The composition is built on the sensation of wind — the grass moves, the dress billows, the clouds shift — and on the way midday summer light bleaches and divides colour into its constituent sensations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, a gift of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon. It was painted at Argenteuil, where Monet lived from 1871 to 1878, in the most productive period of his early career. Camille appears in many of his major works from this period; she died in 1879, aged thirty-two, and the paintings of her retain a particular quality of attention — she is always exactly herself, never a generalised figure, which is what separates Monet's best work from the merely Impressionist and places it in the category of portraiture, even when portraiture was not its stated purpose.\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\/monet-stacks-of-wheat-1891\"\u003eStacks of Wheat, 1890–91\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaude Monet, \u003cem\u003eWoman with a Parasol — Madame Monet and Her Son\u003c\/em\u003e, 1875; oil on canvas, 100 × 81 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.29. 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":57723605221707,"sku":"24a00b96-b1ed-409f-a353-a60e1b4031e6","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/Monet_Mug_front_v3.jpg?v=1787126762"},{"product_id":"robert-zund-oak-forest","title":"Robert Zünd: Oak Forest, 1881 – 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\u003eRobert Zünd\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOak Forest\u003c\/em\u003e, 1881\u003cbr\u003eoil on canvas, 119 × 159 cm\u003cbr\u003eKunsthaus Zürich, inv. 437\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\u003eThe interior of an oak forest at midday, the sun cutting through the canopy in shafts that light the undergrowth without dissolving the shadow around it. Each oak is rendered individually — bark texture, the exact distribution of leaves, the way each tree occupies its particular space — and the whole conveys that stillness which settles over dense forest in summer heat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Zünd (1827–1909) is the central figure in nineteenth-century Swiss landscape painting, and \u003cem\u003eEichenwald\u003c\/em\u003e is among his most celebrated works. He studied in Geneva and Paris before returning to his native Lucerne, where he spent the greater part of a long career painting the forests, meadows and lakeshores of central Switzerland with a precision rooted in the Barbizon tradition. He made dozens of preparatory studies for his major forest paintings, working directly from the motif before composing in the studio; the result is a combination of documentary accuracy and formal organisation that places him in a distinct position within the European landscape tradition, related to but not identical with either the German Romantic school or the French Naturalists.\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\u003eRobert Zünd, \u003cem\u003eEichenwald\u003c\/em\u003e (Oak Forest), 1881–82, oil on canvas, 119 × 159 cm. Kunsthaus Zürich, inv. 437. 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":57724211888459,"sku":"d97cd123-f5e6-4d19-9732-a311fe9c5467","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/Zuend_Mug_front.jpg?v=1786980079"},{"product_id":"art-nouveau-christmas-mug","title":"William H. Bradley: Christmas 1895 – 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\u003eWilliam H. Bradley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eChristmas 1895\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain in the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecorative figures and foliage in a flat, sinuous line: the \u003cem\u003eChristmas 1895\u003c\/em\u003e cover for \u003cem\u003eThe Inland Printer\u003c\/em\u003e is among William H. Bradley's most admired designs, seasonal warmth held inside the formal rigour of his best work. It was reproduced two years later in \u003cem\u003eLes affiches étrangères illustrées\u003c\/em\u003e, the French anthology of international poster art — which placed an American alongside the leading European designers of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBradley (1868–1962) was the foremost American practitioner of Art Nouveau poster design in the 1890s, and his work for the printing trade journal \u003cem\u003eThe Inland Printer\u003c\/em\u003e rivalled the Parisian masters — Toulouse-Lautrec, Mucha, Chéret — in sophistication and ambition. He was largely self-taught, and his absorption of the European idiom through printed sources rather than direct contact gave his work a distinct character: flatter, bolder in its black-and-white contrasts, influenced by Japanese woodblock prints and by Aubrey Beardsley. His covers appeared monthly from 1894 to 1896 and were collected, traded and exhibited by readers who recognised them as art rather than advertising.\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\u003eWilliam H. Bradley, \u003cem\u003eChristmas 1895\u003c\/em\u003e, cover for \u003cem\u003eThe Inland Printer\u003c\/em\u003e, 1895; reproduced in \u003cem\u003eLes affiches étrangères illustrées\u003c\/em\u003e, 1897. Public domain in the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom; Bradley died in 1962, and this mug is therefore not sold into Switzerland.\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":57724211986763,"sku":"8f817d70-bb41-4da6-8fd3-a5fb2ccaf466","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/Bradley_Mug_front.jpg?v=1786986201"},{"product_id":"the-swing-by-fragonard-mug","title":"Jean-Honoré Fragonard: The Swing, 1767 – 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\u003eJean-Honoré Fragonard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Swing\u003c\/em\u003e, 1767\u003cbr\u003eoil on canvas\u003cbr\u003eThe Wallace Collection, London\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\u003ePink and gold light, a sculpted garden space, a flying shoe, and the momentary revelation of a petticoat as the swing rises. The commission behind it was as knowing as the picture: a member of the French court — by some accounts the Baron de Saint-Julien — asked for a scene of his mistress on a garden swing, pushed by a bishop, while he himself lay concealed in the shrubbery below to watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) turned that request into one of the century's great paintings, carried off with a technique of extraordinary delicacy and assurance. The Wallace Collection in London, which has held \u003cem\u003eThe Swing\u003c\/em\u003e since the nineteenth century, describes it as among the most complete expressions of the Rococo spirit — a style devoted to pleasure, elegance and the aestheticisation of aristocratic leisure in the decades before the Revolution swept it away. Fragonard survived the Revolution, outlived his patrons and died in relative obscurity; his rehabilitation as a master came later. The painting, which treats its own frivolity with perfect seriousness, has never required rehabilitation.\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\u003eJean-Honoré Fragonard, \u003cem\u003eThe Swing\u003c\/em\u003e, c. 1767–1768, oil on canvas. The Wallace Collection, London. 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":56856454365515,"sku":"665d5ccb-bdec-4624-b569-32f4380dd21c","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/Fragonard_Mug_front_v3.jpg?v=1787130321"},{"product_id":"manet-races-at-longchamp-1866","title":"Édouard Manet: The Races at Longchamp, 1866 – 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\u003eÉdouard Manet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Races at Longchamp\u003c\/em\u003e, 1866\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas, 44 × 84.2 cm\u003cbr\u003eThe Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection, 1922\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\u003eManet turned the racecourse around. Racing pictures before him showed horses in profile, strung across the canvas like a frieze. Manet put the viewer on the track: the field comes head-on out of a haze of dust, and there is no room left to admire the horses one by one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crowd is a smear of black hats and pale parasols behind the rail; the green of the course runs away into the Bois de Boulogne. Nothing is finished in the academic sense. At speed, nothing is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLongchamp had opened in 1857 and was the fashionable course of the Second Empire — a place to be seen as much as to watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eÉdouard Manet, \u003cem\u003eThe Races at Longchamp\u003c\/em\u003e, 1866. Oil on canvas, 44 × 84.2 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection, 1922.424. Public domain; the museum's reproduction is released under CC0. The mug carries the central section of the panorama.\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\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":58246971785547,"sku":"3d558150-3002-480c-acba-98963af5ca8d","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/b2b2694e-4665-4108-a8ed-b4f39abcf1b4.jpg?v=1787653533"},{"product_id":"william-morris-tulip-1875-porcelain-art-mug","title":"William Morris: Tulip, 1875 – 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\u003eWilliam Morris (1834-1896)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTulip\u003c\/em\u003e, 1875\u003cbr\u003eRoller-printed cotton, 76.1 x 95.3 cm\u003cbr\u003eThe Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Philip White, inv. 1937.579\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\u003eMorris designed \u003cem\u003eTulip\u003c\/em\u003e in 1875, in the years when he was teaching himself to dye and print by hand but did not yet have a printworks of his own — that came with Merton Abbey in 1881, so this pattern was still produced for him by a commercial firm. It is one of the designs he built on an older source: the swaying symmetrical stems and the turned-over leaves come out of the Italian cut velvets he studied at the South Kensington Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a roller print — the cloth drawn between engraved copper rollers, one for each colour — which is why it reads more finely than the wood-block prints Morris made later at Merton Abbey. The pattern was sold in several colourways and on more than one cloth; this length is the pale green on cream. Tulips rise between broad acanthus leaves, and behind them a fine scrolling stem fills the ground so that nothing is left empty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mug carries the pattern as a frieze, at roughly a third of life size. \u003cem\u003eTulip\u003c\/em\u003e is a mirrored pattern, so the section was set by the flowers and not by the repeat: one whole tulip stands at the centre of the front — the opened bloom, the bud beside it and the long flower turning down out of the same stem — uncut, with the mirrored pair falling away to either side.\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\/william-morris-strawberry-thief-1883-porcelain-art-mug\"\u003eStrawberry Thief, 1883\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/william-morris-kennet-1883-porcelain-art-mug\"\u003eKennet, 1883\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Morris, \u003cem\u003eTulip\u003c\/em\u003e, 1875; roller-printed cotton. 76.1 × 95.3 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Philip White, 1937.579. 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":58251793334603,"sku":"6fc457e8-c63f-49c2-bfd1-c1de943c8ddb","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/389be884-b37a-4edf-ba33-c50e29b825dc.webp?v=1787683369"},{"product_id":"georgia-okeeffe-white-flower-1929-porcelain-art-mug","title":"Georgia O'Keeffe: White Flower, 1929 – 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\u003eGeorgia O'Keeffe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Flower\u003c\/em\u003e, 1929\u003cbr\u003eoil on canvas, 76.2 × 91.5 cm\u003cbr\u003eThe Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B\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\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1929 Georgia O'Keeffe went to New Mexico for the first time, and the desert kept her for the rest of her life. This flower was painted that year and shown the following February in New York as \u003cem\u003eWhite Flower, N.M.\u003c\/em\u003e — number nine in an exhibition Alfred Stieglitz called simply \u003cem\u003e27 New Paintings\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe framed flowers the way a photographer would: close, magnified, the blossom running past the edges of the canvas so that there is no stem, no vase, no room, nothing to give the scale. What is left is the thing itself — white petals turning in and out of one another, a ring of orange stamens at the centre, a few blades of dark green pushing in from the corners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritics of the day insisted on reading her flowers as images of the female body. O'Keeffe rejected that reading for the rest of her life, and resisted just as firmly being called a woman artist rather than simply an artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Cleveland Museum of Art bought the painting in 1930, within a year of its making, and has kept it ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mug carries the painting whole and uncropped, at the centre of the front — its white against the white of the porcelain.\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\u003eGeorgia O'Keeffe, \u003cem\u003eWhite Flower\u003c\/em\u003e, 1929; oil on canvas, 76.2 × 91.5 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection, 1930.2162. Open-access image released by the museum under CC0. A copyright notice printed in 1930 without a name is the reason this mug is sold here and not in Switzerland: \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/stories\/the-notice-that-was-missing-a-name\"\u003eread how we checked the rights on this image\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58253842022731,"sku":"43d0e6f1-0e34-426a-b9a6-1800013222c7","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/f4ac9a5c-1156-4030-94c1-d874ebe75cf2.webp?v=1787696006"},{"product_id":"vincent-van-gogh-irises-detail-1889-porcelain-art-mug","title":"Vincent van Gogh: Irises (Detail), 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\u003eIrises\u003c\/em\u003e, 1889\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas, 74.3 x 94.3 cm\u003cbr\u003eThe J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, inv. 90.PA.20\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003eOpen-access image released by the museum\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe white iris stands alone. Van Gogh set it just left of centre, one pale flower in a bed of blue, turned away from the rest. Every account of the painting comes back to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe painted \u003cem\u003eIrises\u003c\/em\u003e in May 1889, in his first week at the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole outside Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, working in the walled garden before he was allowed beyond it. There is no drawing underneath: he began straight onto the canvas with the brush, and the leaves were laid in first, cutting across everything that came after.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe colour is argued rather than described. Blue against the orange marigolds behind, and between them a green that belongs to neither — the lesson he had taken from Japanese prints, which he had been collecting and copying for two years. The blue has shifted since 1889: the flowers were painted a warmer violet, and the red lake pigment in them has faded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis mug carries a detail, not the whole canvas: the white iris, the marigolds above it, and the blue flowers closing in from both sides. The complete painting is shown in the last product image. The printable field on a mug is about nine centimetres high; a canvas almost a metre wide would shrink to a stamp on it, so the honest way to put this picture on a mug is to take a part of it that Van Gogh composed as a whole.\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\/van-gogh-sunflowers-1887-porcelain-art-mug\"\u003eSunflowers, 1887\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/van-gogh-the-bedroom-1889\"\u003eThe Bedroom, 1889\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVincent van Gogh, \u003cem\u003eIrises\u003c\/em\u003e, 1889. Oil on canvas, 74.3 × 94.3 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 90.PA.20. Open-access image released by the museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58368361464139,"sku":"a2a97614-05b9-43b3-953c-5c4b8eae3785","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/27a35c29-7269-4540-acc9-d6fdfed00975.webp?v=1789026125"},{"product_id":"carl-blechen-the-palm-house-on-the-pfaueninsel-detail-1834-porcelain-art-mug","title":"Carl Blechen: The Palm House on the Pfaueninsel (Detail), 1834 – 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\u003eCarl Blechen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Palm House on the Pfaueninsel (Detail)\u003c\/em\u003e, 1834\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas, 135 × 126 cm\u003cbr\u003eArt Institute of Chicago, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003eCC0, public domain\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eA glass house in Berlin, painted from the inside. Blechen made it for Friedrich Wilhelm III, who paid a thousand thalers for it, and what the king got was not a view of a building but the experience of standing in one: floor, columns, painted arches, palms overhead, and the light coming down green through the leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe palms were real and expensive. The king had bought a whole French collection on Alexander von Humboldt's advice, and Schinkel built the house on the Pfaueninsel to hold them. It burned down in 1880. The trees, the coloured glass and the Moorish decoration survive only in pictures like this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe women on the carpet are Blechen's invention — a European fantasy of the tropics, added to a room that never had them. The Art Institute says so plainly in its own catalogue entry, and so do we.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis mug carries a detail, not the whole canvas: the white column, the palms above it, the blue glass beyond, and the group on the red carpet. The complete painting is shown in the last product image. The printable field on a mug is about nine centimetres high; a canvas of 135 by 126 centimetres would shrink to a stamp, so the mug takes the part of the room the painting is built around.\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\u003eCarl Blechen, \u003cem\u003eThe Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam\u003c\/em\u003e, 1834. Oil on canvas, 135 × 126 cm. Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.388. CC0, 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":58368443875659,"sku":"6e7ac645-4e7f-475d-972a-78133fa519b3","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/cc76dc0b-1c40-46c7-990f-5d18cb6c66a5.webp?v=1789023917"},{"product_id":"henri-rousseau-tropical-forest-with-monkeys-detail-1910-porcelain-art-mug","title":"Henri Rousseau: Tropical Forest with Monkeys (Detail), 1910 – 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 Rousseau\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTropical Forest with Monkeys (Detail)\u003c\/em\u003e, 1910\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas, 129.5 × 162.5 cm\u003cbr\u003eNational Gallery of Art, Washington, John Hay Whitney Collection\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003eOpen access, public domain\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eRousseau never left France. The jungle he painted for forty years was assembled in Paris — from the hothouses of the Jardin des Plantes, from the zoo next door, from a picture book of wild animals, and from the plants on his own windowsill, enlarged until a houseplant became a tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is one of the last canvases he finished; he died in the autumn of 1910. The leaves are laid on in flat overlapping planes, each one drawn with its own edge, and the greens are counted rather than blended — contemporaries said he mixed more than fifty of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe picture is not a scene so much as a wall of foliage with animals set into it: a grey langur in the middle, orange monkeys swinging at the right, a bird, and a fishing rod that one of them is holding, which nobody has ever satisfactorily explained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis mug carries a detail, not the whole canvas: the langur among the white blossoms, with the red-leaved plants closing the picture at the bottom. The complete painting is shown in the last product image. The printable field on a mug is about nine centimetres high; a canvas of 129 by 162 centimetres would shrink to a stamp, so the mug takes the group the painting is built around.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. 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