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Around the world in a mug.

We noticed a stack of these lovely handled porcelain cups on a recent spin through the Anthropologie store on Market Street. What caught our eye was a diagonal strip of the white porcelain peeking out from under the dipped glaze along the bottom, a flourish that reminded us of a glazing style you see a lot in Japan. But Japanese drinking cups, as beautiful as they are, are often too small for American maws. This is the land of the Big Gulp.