Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1680-1720
Materials:porcelain, silver, blanc de chine,
Technique:moulded
Subjects:plum blossom/tree
Dimensions:Height: 9.50 centimetres (to top of lid) Length: 15.50 centimetres (Spout to handle) Weight: 0.30 kilograms Width: 9.40 centimetres
Description:
Tea-pot and cover. Octagonal, with plum blossom; spout replaced in silver. Made of moulded and Blanc de Chine porcelain.
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![图片[1]-teapot; cover BM-1980-0728.342-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00103151_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-teapot; cover BM-1980-0728.342-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00106757_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-teapot; cover BM-1980-0728.342-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00354675_001.jpg)
![图片[4]-teapot; cover BM-1980-0728.342-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00356970_001.jpg)
Comments:This mass-produced teapot was moulded into an eight-lobed form and the spout, handle, cover and decoration applied with dilute clay having been made in individual smaller moulds. Added in Europe, the gilt metal chain secures the cover reducing the risk of breakage and the metal spout, which replaced the broken porcelain original, may have actually improved the pouring of the tea. 1. The pure-white sugary porcelain fabric of the teapot is typical of the Dehua kilns and is known in the West by the 19th century French connoiseur’s term blanc de Chine. The pure whiteness of these ceramics is due to the relative absence of iron impurities in the body – indeed the clay used contains only half a percent of ferric oxide compared with 9% percent in a contemporary Yixing example. Body and glaze fuse perfectly in the firing. Potters labouring in kilns in Dehua county, Fujian, repeated successful commercial designs for many decades making precise dating of these porcelains problematic. Blanc de Chine porcelain, admired for its translucency and pure white colour, was exported in great quantities to Europe and inspired imitations in local inferior materials, for example in Germany at Meissen in porcelain and in England at Bow.. European factories appear to have favoured plum blossom (prunus) over other styles of decoration such as immortal figures.2. Similar tea pots were made in brown stoneware clay at Yixing in Jiangsu province, China.Notes1. Rose Kerr and John Ayers with contributions from: Chuimei Ho, Kenson Kwok, Eva Strober and Heidi Tan, Blanc de Chine Porcelain from Dehua, Chicago 2002, cat.nos 94-62. P.J.Donnelly, Blanc de Chine: The Porcelain of Tehua in Fukien, London, 1969, pp. 242-4
Materials:porcelain, silver, blanc de chine,
Technique:moulded
Subjects:plum blossom/tree
Dimensions:Height: 9.50 centimetres (to top of lid) Length: 15.50 centimetres (Spout to handle) Weight: 0.30 kilograms Width: 9.40 centimetres
Description:
Tea-pot and cover. Octagonal, with plum blossom; spout replaced in silver. Made of moulded and Blanc de Chine porcelain.
IMG
Comments:This mass-produced teapot was moulded into an eight-lobed form and the spout, handle, cover and decoration applied with dilute clay having been made in individual smaller moulds. Added in Europe, the gilt metal chain secures the cover reducing the risk of breakage and the metal spout, which replaced the broken porcelain original, may have actually improved the pouring of the tea. 1. The pure-white sugary porcelain fabric of the teapot is typical of the Dehua kilns and is known in the West by the 19th century French connoiseur’s term blanc de Chine. The pure whiteness of these ceramics is due to the relative absence of iron impurities in the body – indeed the clay used contains only half a percent of ferric oxide compared with 9% percent in a contemporary Yixing example. Body and glaze fuse perfectly in the firing. Potters labouring in kilns in Dehua county, Fujian, repeated successful commercial designs for many decades making precise dating of these porcelains problematic. Blanc de Chine porcelain, admired for its translucency and pure white colour, was exported in great quantities to Europe and inspired imitations in local inferior materials, for example in Germany at Meissen in porcelain and in England at Bow.. European factories appear to have favoured plum blossom (prunus) over other styles of decoration such as immortal figures.2. Similar tea pots were made in brown stoneware clay at Yixing in Jiangsu province, China.Notes1. Rose Kerr and John Ayers with contributions from: Chuimei Ho, Kenson Kwok, Eva Strober and Heidi Tan, Blanc de Chine Porcelain from Dehua, Chicago 2002, cat.nos 94-62. P.J.Donnelly, Blanc de Chine: The Porcelain of Tehua in Fukien, London, 1969, pp. 242-4
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