Finest Porcelain Tea Leaf Canister Relief Crane on Light Blue Exclusive Design

Description

Very elegant tea leaf canister in new condition and excellent quality.
The blue crane and the fragrant thoroughwort are all relief, so are the white Chinese characters on the back of the canister. The English translation of the Chinese texts are as follows:
What the Great Learning teaches, is - to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate people; and to rest in the highest excellence.The point where to rest being known, the object of pursuit is then determined;and, that being determined, a calm unperturbness may be attained.To that calmness there will succeed a tranquil repose;In that repose there may be careful deliberation, and that deliberation will be followed by the attainment of the desired end. Things have their root and their completion. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in The Great Learning. - The Text of Confucius.
The Chinese originals are:
大學之道，在明明德。在親民，在止於至善。知止而後有定，定而後能靜；靜而後能安；安而後能慮；慮而後能得。物有本末，事有終始，知所先後，則近道矣。
The light blue glaze is extremely EVEN and clear all over the canister even on the interior surface,this remarkable quality can only be achievable by top-notch porcelain technology.
The approximate capacities(with the lid sealed:
Canister: 14.8 oz (420 ml)
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The Bodhisattva characteristics of fine china:
Endurance.
To turn into fine china, the ceramic materials have to go through most of the following processing steps that differ depending on the shape,required properties, and decoration of the final product: grinding, stirring, rolling, throwing, pressing, extruding, casting, drying, carving, painting, biscuit firing, cooling, glaze firing, decal firing, gold firing,etc. Normally the glaze firing temperature for fine china is as high as 1310~1400℃ (2390~2552ºF). The decal-firing temperature is usually above 800℃(1472ºF). Fine china is born from its relentlessly endurance. The sintering temperature of some ceramic products which are used for  aerospace industry can be as high as 1800℃(3272ºF).
Non-attachment
. High temperature firing causes very high densification and wholly impermeable. After high temperature firing, the ordinary clay turned into fine china which is comparable to jade.  It can be a plate, a tea pot, a bowl, a vase or a cup.... When a cup is used to drink coffee, tea, milk, juice or wine, it will not absorb any of them. Coffee can not make it black, milk can not make it white, juice can not make it sour or sweet, wine can not make it intoxicant or infatuated, it's in perfect stillness without attachment like a Bodhisattva.
Permanence.
Some ancient chinaware, they were buried in deep ocean or dark underground for hundreds or thousands of years,they are not corroded or tarnish. They are corrosion and tarnish proof as pure gold and gem diamond. Once a piece of china is made, it stays there, never convert to other substance. Just like a Bodhisattva who has attained the nirvana of no dwelling, no return to the six divisions in the wheel of karma.
Giving.
Fine china is made of clay, feldspar,limestone,quartz, plant ash, water,  etc., all these materials are given by the generous nature.The ingredients are always there,only waited for the human wisdom to discover the recipe to turn them into fine china. Being a gift from the nature, as well as a product of human wisdom, being the first global commodity, china has benefited myriad people, whether they are old or young, women or men, poor or rich,Easterners or Westerners. Contemporary people may not feel the benefit of chinaware as much as the people lived a few centuries ago.  As per the Pilgrim Art - the Culture of Porcelain in World History by Mr.Robert Finlay,
in the 16th century, most people(in Europe)still used trenchers of wood and bread, as well as drinking cup made from horn and ash wood. In England, unglazed earthenware mugs replaced"black jacks",tankards made from leather coated with pitch, only in the late 16th century.
Nowadays chinaware are very common, affordable by almost every family, thus do not make us feel benefited. This coincides with what's taught in the Vajra Sutra:
a Bodhisattva should not dwell anywhere when he gives.