Looks like something off the set of Game of Thrones or Excalibur if they have been tea drinkers.
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Error line 3, wake-up. 
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Cool, but, really, how easy is that to drink from?
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I think it’s a dribble mug. 
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They were my thoughts exactly when I opened it Christmas Day but…
It’s actually very well behaved as long as you drink exactly along the flat edge where the inner circle is right up against the edge.
Sounds complicated but it’s fine.
It will probably spend more time as show rather than go though TBH.
Often it seems every mug is for me. 
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I’ve looked at this cup & saucer a few times and love it, a beautiful piece.
I am waiting for mine.
For wifeys birthday we went to place you can paint your own , then they glaze them , should be a week or so
My painting skills are simply awe(ful)some , I am better with a big wall to go at
Coming soon 
@PixelPopper, Thanks! I really like the design too. I have an oil painting above my stereo by a Russian artist, Galya Popova. One day on Facebook she “liked” some ceramics that had been done by another artist in Nizhny Novgorod named Marika Akilova. I was impressed with the pieces she was creating so I sent her an email & asked her if she could make a set of cups for me in her “Icelandic” series. She replied that she had never sent anything to the USA before but was willing to give it a try. I found out that the boxes the Russian postal service makes are not very sturdy and on each order I’ve done, one item has been damaged each time. I was just always glad when they finally arrived because it took a while to make them, fire them & ship them. But the rest I gave as gifts over the years to all of my friends (e.g. Abigail in Austin below) who I knew were avid tea drinkers (even though I use mine primarily for coffee).
As a side note, I was also impressed with the wood-fired anagama that she and her friends built to collectively fire their pieces in. It was an interesting bit of construction.
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Thanks for the information, the Icelandic tea-set is beautiful and frustratingly (but understandably) expensive. I doubt I’ll be able to be a purchaser alas…
The anagama is an amazing construction, based on the original Greek arch, I’m guessing, but a finer piece of work so Sino-Japanese influences no doubt account for the smaller bricks used in construction.
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