Teapot in the Shape of a Melon, anonymous, c. 1675 - c. 1699

Identification

Title(s)

Teapot in the Shape of a Melon
Teapot with grapevines and squirrels

Object type

teapot

Object number

AK-NM-6574-1

Description

Theepot van rood steengoed op een hoge, opengewerkte voet en de gebogen tuit, C-vormig oor en dekselknop in de vorm van knoestige takken. De wand is bedekt met druivenranken en drie eekhoorns in reliëf: één boven de tuit en twee bij het oor. De tuit is voorzien van een zilveren montuur. Yixing.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

China

Dating

c. 1675 - c. 1699

School / style

Qing-dynasty (1644-1912) / Kangxi-period (1662-1722)

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

formed / relief (sculpture technique) / fired

Measurements

height 13 cm
width 20.5 cm

Subject

Who

Jean Theodore Royer

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transferred 1885

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; collection Jean Theodore Royer (1737-1807), The Hague;{Note RMA.} bequeathed by his widow to King William I, 1814;{Note RMA.}; transferred to the Royal Cabinet of Curiosities, The Hague, 1816;{Note RMA.} from whom transferred to the museum, 1885

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Is part of

Teapot with grapevines and squirrels (AK-NM-6574)

Documentation

Vervolg op: De Haagse jurist Jean Theodore Royer (1737-1807) en zijn verzameling Chinese voorwerpen, p. 131, cat.nr. 307
Chinese ceramics in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam : the Ming and Qing dynasties, p. 249, cat.nr. 286

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