About Cupsicum
The House
We keep a small house. Each piece is studied before it is offered — its mark read, its pattern placed, its condition told plainly.
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Cupsicum began as a private shelf: a family of cups that had outlived three generations of tables. The shelf grew into a study, the study into this house. We buy fewer pieces than we are offered, and we sell only what we would keep.
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Authentication & care
Every object is examined under raking light and UV, its marks read against the factory records, its condition described plainly — chips, hairlines and honest repairs included. What we cannot attribute, we say so.
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Encyclopedia Explore the Encyclopedia →
The Encyclopedia is our working library made public: the makers, patterns and backstamps we consult daily, cross-linked with the pieces that pass through the house.
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