JVV 0448
Delft, 1710-1730
The teapot has a round body on a foot, a short straight spout and an ear-shaped handle. The slightly curved lid has a mushroom-shaped knob. The teapot is painted all round in blue with a floral decoration. There are dots and stripes on the handle and the spout.
Dimensions: height 12 cm / 4.72 in., length 17,5 cm/ 6.88 in., width 11 cm/4.33 in.
Provenance: Art Céramique Nicolier, Paris
Explanatory note
With the introduction of tea in the second half of the seventeenth century, the unprecedented popular fashion of drinking tea began in the Netherlands. Tea was consumed from Asian porcelain or Dutch Delftware. Apart from the teapot, the tea-canister, the sugar bowl and the cup and saucer, the necessities for drinking tea also included the pattipan (a saucer for a teapot), the rinsing bowl and the kettle on a stove.
Literature
J.R. ter Molen, Thema thee. De geschiedenis van de thee en het theegebruik in Nederland, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam 1978
