{"product_id":"botanica-noir-bone-china-mug","title":"Botanica Noir Bone China Mug","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is a particular luxury in the ordinary morning cup, and the Botanica Noir mug is made for people who notice it. Against a deep, near-black ground, a botanical study unfurls in full colour: trailing stems, veined ivy leaves picked out in cream, and small blooms in ochre, blush and forget-me-not blue. It is the darkest and most contemporary design in the Otava botanical line, and the one most at home on a modern desk or a marble worktop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pattern belongs to a family. The Botanica design also appears on a powder-blue and a cream ground, and across mug, coffee-cup and espresso shapes, so the Noir mug sits naturally alongside its companions — whether you are building a considered place setting or collecting the pieces you love one at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/9508\/4403\/files\/mc.png?v=1783867465\" alt=\"Otava Botanica Noir fine bone china coffee mug with a dark botanical floral pattern\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is made from fine bone china, the material that has defined English tea and coffee ware for two centuries. Held to the light, the walls carry the faint translucency only true bone china gives; in the hand, the mug feels lighter than its size suggests, with a smooth, cool glaze and a handle shaped to sit against the fingers. It is a generous everyday size, equally suited to a long morning coffee or an afternoon tea that outlasts the meeting it was meant to fill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of us keep one cup that is \u003cem\u003eours\u003c\/em\u003e — the one that stays on the desk, that colleagues learn not to borrow, that says something quiet about its owner among a sea of identical office mugs. Botanica Noir is made to be that cup: expressive without being loud, its dark palette reading as easily masculine as feminine, which is rare in floral china and quietly useful when you are choosing a piece for someone else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat last point matters, because a mug like this is as often given as kept. Fine bone china has long been the gracious answer to the moments that call for a gift with some weight to it: the colleague leaving for a new chapter, where a considered farewell gift says more than a card; the teacher remembered with something lasting rather than disposable; the quiet thank-you owed to someone whose help went beyond the job. Because it carries no name or slogan, it never risks the awkwardness of a personalised gift that misjudges its recipient — it simply arrives as something beautiful, and is understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrefer something quieter? Every design in this range is also offered as a plain white bone china mug in the same silhouette — the same fine material and comfortable form, undecorated, for those who like their tableware unadorned or want to mix the patterned with the plain. Choose your finish above.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/9508\/4403\/files\/mcw.png?v=1783867618\" alt=\"Plain white Otava bone china coffee mug, undecorated, in the same silhouette as the Botanica Noir\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCare.\u003c\/strong\u003e To protect the design, we recommend gentle hand washing with a soft cloth and mild detergent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt a glance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nFine bone china · Botanica Noir design, also in Plain White · Ships across Singapore · Part of the Otava Botanica line — see also Botanica Blue, Botanica Cream and the Botanica Noir espresso cup \u0026amp; saucer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Otava","offers":[{"title":"Botanica Noir","offer_id":63084520604019,"sku":null,"price":39.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Plain White","offer_id":63084520636787,"sku":null,"price":29.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/9508\/4403\/files\/mc.png?v=1783867465","url":"https:\/\/otava.sg\/products\/botanica-noir-bone-china-mug","provider":"Otava","version":"1.0","type":"link"}