JINTAO BLUE & WHITE, PORCELAIN-WASH, ''PEONY'' FLOWER PAINTING, FOUNTAIN PEN. A beautiful work of fine art & an aesthetically pleasing writing instrument besides. Jintao's ''Peony'' is a celebration of writing, with it's beautifully & delicately inscribed Barrel & Cap - Beautiful pink & red peonies, in a range of sizes & presented in a laquer, ''porcelain-wash'', are offset by tastefully scripted & fine Chinese Calligraphy, bordered in Gold relief & heightened by the delicate porcelain wash that is the background. I have and use an Iris Pen (scanner), a NeoPen & a Livescribe Pulse but I still come back to my fountain pen & the feeling of being the thoughtful writer who inscribes his thoughts, feelings & observations; A fountain pen draws from us some long-lost meditative strengths & ''We'' become the writer. Even when I am simply annotating/ jotting a note or a reference in the column of something I am reading, It somehow feels like I am taking ownership of what I write & the book itself.
This is a truely beautiful pen & essentially a stylish, elegant & tasteful writing instrument & yet a very functional & use-worthy Pen; Pensmanship (& even cursive script, fine 'writing' & Calligraphy) is/ are once again gaining favour & gathering followers and adherents. With Xmas upon us, this will make a truely marvelously original and unique gift & mark You out as the person of indelible taste & the connoiseur that You clearly are. Comes in a beautiful Velvet or Leather Tube & Gift Box - Also Comes with a complimentary bottle of Thornton's Fine or Windsor and Newton Premier Ink. I suspect that it will be impossible for the woman (man) in Your life to pick-up, unscrew the cap and use this beautiful example of 'The Pen', without 'You', unbidden, coming into & lingering in their thoughts: Comes in a beautiful Crocodile Skin (Leather) Tube (In Gift Box), with a complimentary bottle of Thornton's Luxury Ink.