Collection place: Guangzhou, Guangdong province, Southern China / Donor: Anson Stiles Blake - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Collection place Guangzhou, Guangdong province, Southern China Donor Anson Stiles Blake

Hearst Museum object titled Teapot, accession number 9-13437a,b, described as Tea Pot (a), with lid (b): Yi-hsing stoneware. Small Hexagonal, with slightly convex sides, high shoulder, narrow hexagonal neck. Recessed base. Large ear-shaped handle, "S" shaped spout molded in form of bamboo segments. Slight relief bamboo leaves near spout. Glaze (?) and enamel decoration: Circular medallion on each side, two large, one with pink peonies, other chrysanthemum, with leaves on fine crackled white ground. Two small medallions with pink geometric floral designs on white; two small with same design in dark green on light green. Ground between medallions: dark green cloud patterns on blue-green. Six dark green floral designs on lights-green on shoulder. White neck. Handle and spout gray-blue. Lid (b) flat form with tongue; molded 'stem' finial, and cloud-pattern ground. Base and interior not glazed. Surfaces (a&b) very worn. H. (a) 7.5cm; max L. 17.7cm; H (b) 3.3 max. Dia. 6.9cm Materials: Red-brown stoneware, slab built and molded. Glaze (?) and enamel decoration. Yi-hsing were also known as I-hsing, Yixing and formerly Boccaro. (Port.)