Teapot

Gallery 335, Asian Art, third floor

Main Building

Teapot

1690-1710

Made by De Gecroonde Theepot (The Crowned Teapot), Delft (1690–1724) Under Adriaan Jansz. Ary de Milde (active at De Gecroonde Theepot (The Crowned Teapot) 1690–1708)

Small teapots like the one on display here were used for brewing strong tea, which was then diluted with hot water from a bouilloire, a silver or copper kettle on a stand over a brazier. Red stoneware teapots, produced in Delft at the end of the seventeenth century, were inspired by Chinese teapots that were imported into the Netherlands with tea cargoes. As the popularity of tea increased, so did the demand for these teapots.

Gallery 335, Asian Art, third floor

Object Details

Titles:

Teapot

Date:

1690-1710

Artists:

Made by De Gecroonde Theepot (The Crowned Teapot), Delft (1690–1724) Under Adriaan Jansz. Ary de Milde (active at De Gecroonde Theepot (The Crowned Teapot) 1690–1708)

Medium:

Unglazed stoneware with relief decoration

Dimensions:

4 1/2 × 7 1/4 × 4 7/8 inches (11.4 × 18.4 × 12.4 cm)

Classification:

Containers

Credit Line:

The Bloomfield Moore Collection, 1910

Accession Number:

1910-418,a

Geography:

Made in Delft, Netherlands, Europe

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Gallery 335, Asian Art, third floor

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