Unknown Chinese
Teapot

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Maker Unknown Chinese

CultureChinese

Titles

Teapot

Datec. 1755–1765

Made inChina , Asia

MediumHard-paste porcelain with enamel

Dimensions6 × 3 in. (15.2 × 7.6 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Object numberB.69.160.1.A,.B

Current Location

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

Newport Room

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

CERAMICS

DescriptionWhen Chinese porcelains arrived in the West in the 1500s and 1600s, Westerners were taken with the elegance of thin, pure white dishes with a glassy finish. This Chinese porcelain teapot is a comparable type that was used in America. It sits in a cupboard in the Newport Room, along with an array of English tin-glazed earthenware dishes, which were created to try to satisfy the desire by English and American customers for white ceramics to in the 1700s.
ProvenanceMiss Ima Hogg; given to MFAH, by 1969.

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