[It just so happens that Zhongli is in one of those places doing the best kind of shopping which is window shopping. He sees Gil holding something pretty and expensive, which of course caught his eye for Reasons, but there's something about it...]
A curious style of ceramic, is it not? You can see by the color that it was highly influenced by Chinese porcelain, though this is a Persian blue glaze. The elite of the time collected porcelain so Eastern motifs were sometimes repeated in the work. This one is a little different, however.
[He draws closer, and points to the rim of the plate.]
The pattern around the edge actually contains a quatrain by a Persian poet about the harvest. It is a faithful imitation of a prominent museum piece in the Royal Ontario Museum. It may not be genuine, as the real thing is several hundred years old by now, but it has been handmade with great care.
[Gil may be excused for wondering who is mansplaining Persian pottery to him, especially a guy dressed like a fucking anime character. Normal people don't wear weird dragon trenchcoats and glowy things.]
out and about;
A curious style of ceramic, is it not? You can see by the color that it was highly influenced by Chinese porcelain, though this is a Persian blue glaze. The elite of the time collected porcelain so Eastern motifs were sometimes repeated in the work. This one is a little different, however.
[He draws closer, and points to the rim of the plate.]
The pattern around the edge actually contains a quatrain by a Persian poet about the harvest. It is a faithful imitation of a prominent museum piece in the Royal Ontario Museum. It may not be genuine, as the real thing is several hundred years old by now, but it has been handmade with great care.
[Gil may be excused for wondering who is mansplaining Persian pottery to him, especially a guy dressed like a fucking anime character. Normal people don't wear weird dragon trenchcoats and glowy things.]