{"title":"Wine stoppers","description":"\u003cp\u003eWine stoppers, for the bottle that doesn't get finished. Mimidar casts theirs in zinc alloy with enamel fields (hojakdo's magpie and tiger, or a Joseon jar in celadon or blue-and-white), and the weight helps hold the seal. Dinotaeng's quokka wears a waiter's bow tie.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"quokka-wine-stopper","title":"Quokka wine stopper","description":"\u003cp\u003eA quokka in a waiter's bow tie stands on the plug of a wine stopper, hand-painted in ABS. It carries a white service towel folded over one arm and wears a black belt at the waist, details that only register at close range on a figure 70mm tall. Below it the plug is red silicone, ribbed and tapered. Each one is painted by hand, so specks, seam lines, small surface bubbles and slight variation in the printing are normal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePush it in by the plug rather than the figure. Seating takes a firm press, and the ribs grip once it is down. Check the mouth of the bottle first, since anything outside 15 to 30 millimeters across will not seal. Still wine keeps under it, and so does a bottle of cooking wine or sesame oil. Carbonated wine is the exception: the pressure works the plug back out overnight. The figure stands above the neck, enough that a stoppered bottle can stop clearing a fridge shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dinotaeng","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47235099918511,"sku":null,"price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/5917\/1503\/files\/quokka-wine-stopper-grid-001.jpg?v=1784959364"},{"product_id":"quokka-wine-stopper-set-of-two","title":"Quokka wine stopper, set of two","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo quokka wine stoppers come dressed as the same waiter twice: hand-painted ABS, a red bow tie at the throat, a white service towel folded over one arm. A black belt sits at the waist. Each figure stands on a red silicone plug, ribbed and tapered so a single plug fits a range of bottle mouths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePush each one in by the plug rather than the figure. Seating takes a firm press, and the ribs grip once it is down. Still wine and cooking oil keep under them, though carbonated wine is the exception: the pressure works the plug back out overnight. Check the bottle mouth against the plug range in the specs, since anything outside it will not seal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDinotaeng paints each figure by hand, so the two will not match exactly: specks, faint seam lines, small bubbles in the surface, slight differences in the printing. The quokka is also sold on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dinotaeng","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47237778964655,"sku":null,"price":56.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/5917\/1503\/files\/set2-quokka-wine-stopper-03-function.jpg?v=1784979300"},{"product_id":"magpie-and-tiger-wine-stopper","title":"Magpie and tiger wine stopper","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wine stopper in cast zinc alloy, colored in enamel and built around hojakdo (호작도), the magpie-and-tiger painting Joseon households hung at the gate each New Year: the tiger drives misfortune off, the magpie brings the good news in. The genre doubled as satire, the tiger standing in for a corrupt official, which is why the face is comic rather than fearsome. Mimidar left every line raised in brass between the enamel fields and layered the metal so the magpie lifts off the branch. The two green tassels are pine needles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything above the plug is metal, and that weight is part of how the seal holds. The silicone below steps down through five ridges and closes bottle mouths from sixteen to twenty millimeters, so whisky and oil bottles keep under it too. It stands high enough that a stoppered bottle will not clear a low fridge shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMimidar assembles each one by hand, so the two metal halves carry slight play that varies piece to piece. It ships standing on the red seat of a wooden case built as the throne room at Gyeongbokgung, shrunk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mimidar","offers":[{"title":"White Tiger","offer_id":47256281186479,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Blue Tiger","offer_id":47256281219247,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/5917\/1503\/files\/magpie-and-tiger-wine-stopper-03-function.jpg?v=1785151845"},{"product_id":"celadon-in-the-house-wine-stopper","title":"Celadon in the house wine stopper","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wine stopper in cast zinc alloy, colored in enamel and shaped as a Joseon jar the size of a thumb. Two designs. The green one is cheongja (청자), Goryeo celadon, carrying unhakmun, cranes flying between clouds inside white roundels. The white one is cheonghwa baekja (청화백자), blue-and-white porcelain, with plum and bamboo drawn in cobalt, a flower that opens in the cold and a stem that stays green and straight through it. Mimidar raises every outline in bare metal between the enamel fields, so each line sits proud of the color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything above the plug is solid metal, and the weight helps hold the seal. The silicone below steps down through five ridges and closes bottle mouths from sixteen to twenty millimeters, so whisky and oil bottles keep under it as well as wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMimidar tested the plug against more than a hundred glass bottles before fixing the design. It ships standing in a wooden case built as the throne room at Gyeongbokgung, shrunk, its kkotsalmun lattice doors shutting on magnets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mimidar","offers":[{"title":"Goryeo celadon","offer_id":47257221136559,"sku":null,"price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Blue and white","offer_id":47257221169327,"sku":null,"price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/5917\/1503\/files\/celadon-in-the-house-wine-stopper-v2-01-hero.jpg?v=1785220616"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.shopsoodam.com\/collections\/wine-stoppers.oembed","provider":"Soodam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}