Period:Unknown
Materials:metal, pewter (?),
Technique:
Dimensions:Height: 15.80 centimetres Weight: 1.03 kilograms Width: 17 centimetres Depth: 12.50 centimetres
Description:
Teapot (in basket).
IMG
![图片[1]-teapot BM-As-SLMisc.1482-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00469323_001.jpg)
Comments:Sloane acquired a number of Chinese objects (nos. 1478 to 1482: only the last appears to survive in the BM collection) from Dr Waldo of Norwich a member of the Royal College of Physicians who was surgeon for the East India Company. Sloane’s Miscellanies catalogue (a catalogue within his larger volume of Miscellanea) records: 1478. A rib’d two eard China bottle very ponderous made of redish earth glaz’d over wt. green said to be 1000 years old from Dr. Waldo. Q. one of that sort fish’d up concerning w ch. vid. the letters edificiantes [‘Lettres édificantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères, par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus’,Jean Cusson [and others], 1702-1776, Paris.] Id. tome 12. p. 348 1479. A large dish of the same. Id. [ie also from Dr Waldo]1480. A Jarr & cover of the same , flower’d. Id.1481. An intire beaker of the same wt. two broken pieces. Id.1482. [the present item] A Chinese Tutanege tea pott wt. a baskett to carry it in Id. [in 19th century a note was added that it was w t out basket H 6 in.]
Materials:metal, pewter (?),
Technique:
Dimensions:Height: 15.80 centimetres Weight: 1.03 kilograms Width: 17 centimetres Depth: 12.50 centimetres
Description:
Teapot (in basket).
IMG
Comments:Sloane acquired a number of Chinese objects (nos. 1478 to 1482: only the last appears to survive in the BM collection) from Dr Waldo of Norwich a member of the Royal College of Physicians who was surgeon for the East India Company. Sloane’s Miscellanies catalogue (a catalogue within his larger volume of Miscellanea) records: 1478. A rib’d two eard China bottle very ponderous made of redish earth glaz’d over wt. green said to be 1000 years old from Dr. Waldo. Q. one of that sort fish’d up concerning w ch. vid. the letters edificiantes [‘Lettres édificantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères, par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus’,Jean Cusson [and others], 1702-1776, Paris.] Id. tome 12. p. 348 1479. A large dish of the same. Id. [ie also from Dr Waldo]1480. A Jarr & cover of the same , flower’d. Id.1481. An intire beaker of the same wt. two broken pieces. Id.1482. [the present item] A Chinese Tutanege tea pott wt. a baskett to carry it in Id. [in 19th century a note was added that it was w t out basket H 6 in.]
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