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Postby qpsport on Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:54 pm

Thanks for replies! Follow up question: what is meant by tulip shape vs bowl? Is the flat bottom cup the tulip and a round bottom a bowl? Or is it the way the sides rise ie the bowl is a more constant round curvature vs. tulip which gets progressively more vertical? Or is it both? Or is it just a size thing, bowls are bigger?
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Postby RegulatorJohnson on Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:19 pm

it is the way the sides rise up. the bowl leave you with more area at the rim for the art to live in. they both may be the same volume with different shapes.

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Postby HB on Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:23 pm

Here's a side-by-side comparison of tulip vs. bowl shaped cups:

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Postby Beezer on Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:36 pm

A tulip cup looks vaguely like a tulip.

http://www.espressoparts.com/EP_TC5_BLACK

A bowl cup is shaped like, well, a bowl.

http://www.espressoparts.com/EP_SL7_BLACK

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