teapot, Rongqing

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Rongqing, teapot
Rongqing, teapot
Rongqing
teapot
late 1800s, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Rongqing
active late 1800s
teapot, late 1800s, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Where object was made: China
Material/technique: Yixing ware; stoneware
Dimensions:
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): 20 x 21 cm
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): 7 7/8 x 8 1/4 in
Credit line: William Bridges Thayer Memorial
Accession number: 1928.1558.a,b
Not on display
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Nature/Natural
This teapot was made in Yixing, a famous pottery center in China. Yixing ware is highly prized for its natural clay colors, simplicity of design, and elegant execution. Yixing teapots were, and are still, much sought after by Chinese tea drinkers who find them perfect for brewing tea. They are known for their ability to retain the taste, color, and aroma of the tea leaves steeped in them. This teapot has a body that resembles a jointed section of a bamboo, or culm, with two twisted bamboo branches as its handle. Two smaller intertwined branches surrounded by bamboo leaves molded in low relief form the lid’s knob. The upturned spout is also in the form of a section of bamboo.
This teapot was made in Yixing, a famous pottery center in China. Yixing ware is highly prized for its natural clay colors, simplicity of design, and elegant execution. Yixing teapots were, and are still, much sought after by Chinese tea drinkers who find them perfect for brewing tea. They are known for their ability to retain the taste, color, and aroma of the tea leaves steeped in them. This teapot has a body that resembles a jointed section of a bamboo, or culm, with two twisted bamboo branches as its handle. Two smaller intertwined branches surrounded by bamboo leaves molded in low relief form the lid’s knob. The upturned spout is also in the form of a section of bamboo.
Archive Label 2003: This teapot was made in Yixing, a famous pottery center in China. Yixing ware is highly prized for its natural clay colors, simplicity of design, and elegant execution. Yixing teapots were, and are still, much sought after by Chinese tea drinkers who find them perfect for brewing tea. They are known for their ability to retain the taste, color, and aroma of the tea leaves steeped in them. This teapot has a body that resembles a jointed section of a bamboo, or culm, with two twisted bamboo branches as its handle. Two smaller intertwined branches surrounded by bamboo leaves molded in low relief form the lid’s knob. The upturned spout is also in the form of a section of bamboo.

Exhibitions

Nature/Natural
Kris Ercums, curator
2011–2014
Reviving the Past: Antiquity & Antiquarianism in East Asian Art
Kris Ercums, curator
2008–2010
Fish, Flowers & Flying Things: Nature at the Spencer
Joseph W. Lampo, curator
2002

Citations

Broun, Elizabeth. Handbook of the Collection: Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 1978.