Teapot
ca. 1828-1850 (made)
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Many Yixing wares are the collaboration of the potter and the scholar. The potter made the vessel and the scholar inscribed it with one or more poetic lines. The present ewer has a stoneware body encased in pewter. A simple landscape is engraved on one side, and a two-line couplet in regular script with a signature on the other. The handle, tip of the spout and knop are made of jade, to avoid scorching. The inscription on the present ewer suggests that it is a wine pot. 'Tao' refers to Tao Qian (alias Yuanming, 376-427) and 'Lu' to Lu You (1125-1210). Both men were great wine-lovers and have left behind scores of poems about wine-drinking. In the V&A collection is another ewer engraved with calligraphy by Yunsheng but in running script (M164-1930). The latter ewer is made entirely of pewter without the stoneware core.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Stoneware and pewter |
| Brief description | Ewer and cover made of Yixing stoneware encased in pewter, China, c. 1828-1850 |
| Physical description | Ewer and cover made of stoneware body encased in pewter. A simple landscape is engraved on one side, and a two-line couplet in regular script with a signature on the other. The handle, tip of the spout and knop are made of jade. |
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| Credit line | C. G. J. Port Bequest |
| Summary | Many Yixing wares are the collaboration of the potter and the scholar. The potter made the vessel and the scholar inscribed it with one or more poetic lines. The present ewer has a stoneware body encased in pewter. A simple landscape is engraved on one side, and a two-line couplet in regular script with a signature on the other. The handle, tip of the spout and knop are made of jade, to avoid scorching. The inscription on the present ewer suggests that it is a wine pot. 'Tao' refers to Tao Qian (alias Yuanming, 376-427) and 'Lu' to Lu You (1125-1210). Both men were great wine-lovers and have left behind scores of poems about wine-drinking. In the V&A collection is another ewer engraved with calligraphy by Yunsheng but in running script (M164-1930). The latter ewer is made entirely of pewter without the stoneware core. |
| Associated object | |
| Bibliographic reference | Wilson, Ming, Rare marks on Chinese ceramics, London : Published by the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1998
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | M.163&A-1930 |
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| Record created | February 9, 2000 |
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