Teapot
ca.1700 (made)
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Oriental porcelain with European silver mounts is recorded as early as 1365 and from then until the end of the sixteenth century such precious mounts were provided as a tribute to the great rarity of the porcelain.
Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.
On long-term loan to Los Angeles County Museum from 2010.
Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.
On long-term loan to Los Angeles County Museum from 2010.
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain, with silver-gilt mounts |
| Brief description | A Kakiemon porcelain teapot with German silver-gilt mounts |
| Physical description | A Kakiemon porcelain teapot with German silver-gilt mounts. The porcelain pot of slightly melon form painted with vertical panels of partly gilt flowering plants, the porcelain cover painted with flowers, possibly from another vessel, the silver-gilt neck mount chased with gadroons, the cover mount serrated leaf-tip border, fluted urn finial attached by silver-gilt chains to a leaf-form handle mount with hinged cover engraved with scrolling foliage |
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| Credit line | The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
| Object history | Japanese porcelain was highly prized in Europe at this time and often provided with precious silver mounts. The mounts enhanced the importance of the piece, added more familiar European decoration to the alien ornament of the porcelain, and also protected its vulnerable edges. |
| Production | The mounts were probably added to this Japanese teapot between 1692, when Johann Ulrich Baur became a master, and 1704, when he died.(Chapman (addendum), 1991) |
| Summary | Oriental porcelain with European silver mounts is recorded as early as 1365 and from then until the end of the sixteenth century such precious mounts were provided as a tribute to the great rarity of the porcelain. Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996. On long-term loan to Los Angeles County Museum from 2010. |
| Bibliographic reference | Chapman, Martin. The Gilbert Collection of Gold and Silver. Recent Acquisitions 2. Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1991, cat. no. N. |
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| Accession number | LOAN:GILBERT.870-2008 |
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| Record created | June 19, 2008 |
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