Perfect Form, Perfectly Spare Chinese Stoneware Ear Cup, c. 600 AD faux food I find them highly empathetic

I find them highly empathetic and completely charming and think they have an almost sci-fi sort of sense to them

and pelvic bones of what I believe are seated skeletons (really they look almost like they are riding bikes

with that string then wrapped around the barrel

circa 1930s

When I come across a school notebook as sweet as this one

Perfect Form, Perfectly Spare Chinese Stoneware Ear Cup, c. 600 AD faux food I find them highly empatheticTo my eye the most perfectly minimal, perfectly proportioned shallow vessel, just what it needs to be and not a thing more, this is a very old Chinese "ear cup", c 600 AD, which I purchased from a collector, dealer and friend in Maine. Chinese ear cups, or 'erbei' in Chinese, are an ancient form, functional as vessels for drinking, but more broadly embodying Chinese philosophy, aesthetics, and social customs and exquisite craftsmanship. And indeed,