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Chinese civilisation’s reverence for tea extends to the quality of care accorded to the storage of the precious leaves. Ming’s stylishly retro caddies, in glazed ceramics and pewter, both inert, work in tandem with airtight double lids to stave off any avoidable effects on contents.
A many-layered homonym, ming can mean ‘bright’, a reference to the exuberant coloured glaze, is an ancient term for tea, and the dynastic name of one of China’s most artistically refined eras.
