Taiwanese designer Hsia-Ying Lin has worked together with craft artisan Jun-Ching Tang on ‘Moon Rabbit’ cup and plate. Made from black clay, these tableware pieces interpret the famous chinese fairytale of the rabbit on the moon, commemorated every autumn in taiwan during the moon festival celebrations. Lin and Tang have designed a cup in which the rabbit sips the water within along the lip of the vessel; and a plate where a rabbit is found sitting on its edge,its stretched ‘reflection’ becoming the dish itself.

A collection of Moon Rabbit cups and plates.

This collection has a sombre, serious tone. They’re fun, but not in a “let’s hold hands and frolic in the sunshine” kind of way. It must be the black clay. There is something very grown up about black clay.