Teapot

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CultureEnglish

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Teapot

Datec. 1750–1760

Made inEngland

MediumLead-glazed earthenware (redware)

Dimensions7 × 8 3/4 × 3 1/4 in. (17.8 × 22.2 × 8.3 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Object numberB.61.99.A,.B

Current Location

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

Kilroy Center

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Bayou Bend

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DescriptionThis redware relief-molded camel-shaped teapot with a howdah decorated with two panels bears elements from John Stalker and George Parker's Treatise of Japaning and Varnishing, published in Oxford, England, in 1688. On one side is a figure holding an umbrella taken from Pl. 18 and a building possibly from Pl. 24. On the other side is a panel with a building beside a warrior figure who is not from the treatise.

Provenance[Ginsburg & Levy, New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, October 31, 1961; given to MFAH, by 1966.
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