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teapot / lid

• Object type

  • teapot
  • lid

• Museum number

  PDF.420

• Description

  Dehua porcelain teapot with barrel shaped body, short straight neck and base, plain spout and handle, and flat cover with knob. The teapot has milk-white glaze. There is a raised band on the body and two shallow concentric grooves on the lid. The underside of the lid is unglazed.

• Culture/period

  • Qing dynasty

• Date

  • 19thC

• Production place

  • Made in: Dehua
  • (Asia,China,Fujian (province),Dehua)

• Materials

  • porcelain

• Ware

  • Dehua Ware

• Technique

  • glazed

• Dimensions

  • Height: 105 millimetres

• Curator's comments

  Room 95 label text:

  PDF 420

  Dehua teapot

  
  Dehua wares of the period AD 1600–1911 are typified by figures and vessels with a granular sugary white body and either a blue tinged or creamy white glaze. 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. Plain white porcelains from the Dehua kilns in Fujian, south-eastern China are known in the West by the nineteenth-century French connoisseurs’ term Blanc de Chine.

  
  Porcelain with transparent glaze
  Dehua ware 德化窯
  Dehua, Fujian province 德化, 福建省
  Qing dynasty, about AD 1800–1900

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• Bibliography

  • Medley 1975 Monochrome pl. 226
  • Hobson 1934 p. 155, pl. CLIV(a)

• Location

  On display: G95/dc34/sh2

• Acquisition name

  • On loan from: Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art

• Acquisition notes

  R. L. Hobson, 1934 records:'From the Mitsumura Collection, Kobe.

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF.420