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Teapot

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CultureEnglish

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Teapot

Datec. 1740–1760

Made inEngland

MediumRed stoneware

Dimensions5 1/2 × 8 3/16 in. (14 × 20.8 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Object numberB.67.23.A,.B

Current Location

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

Ceramics Study Room

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

CERAMICS

DescriptionRed-bodied Chinese stoneware began to arrive in Europe by at least the 1660s. European potters quickly began to imitate it. The body of the ware was fine-grained, nonporous, and did not require a glaze to be serviceable. Such wares surged in popularity again at the middle of the 1700s, often with applied-molded or “sprigged” decoration, as on this teapot, or with engine turning.
Provenance[David Stockwell (1907–1996), Wilmington, Delaware]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, September 18, 1967; given to MFAH, 1967.
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