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Teapot
(c. 1770)
Medium
earthenware
Measurements
(a-b) 9.3 × 15.8 × 9.7 cm (overall)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Patricia Begg OAM Bequest, 2024
© Public Domain
Gallery location
17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Landscape scenes scattered with architectural elements were some of the most pervasive images to reach Europe from Asia from the seventeenth century and provided rich imagery for European fantasies about Asia. Watery, meditative landscapes, interspersed with gazebos, bridges and pavilions, decorated Chinese porcelain and Japanese lacquer wares that were shipped to Europe in great numbers. These scenes, or European imaginings stimulated by them, were soon copied on European porcelain and earthenwares. The fanciful Chinoiserie landscape decorations on this teapot and adjacent coffee cup include pavilions loosely derived from Chinese pagodas, figures fishing from skiffs, strange palm-like trees and a bizarre semicircular scholar’s rock.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Leeds, England
Accession Number
2024.344.a-b
Department
International Decorative Arts