Teapot
Place of OriginYixing, Jiangsu province, China; Yixing, Jiangsu province
Date1700-1800
MaterialsHigh fired ceramic
DimensionsH. 5 1/8 in x Diam. 4 in, H. 12.9 cm x Diam. 10.2 cm
Credit LineTransfer from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Object numberB81P71.a-.b
DepartmentChinese Art
ClassificationsCeramics
On View
Not on viewThe unglazed stoneware teapots of China's Yixing kilns were particularly prized in both China and the West. Yixing teapots often took fanciful shapes such as the trunk and branches (and fanciful squirrel for the knob) seen here. A rather similar trunk-and-branch-shaped Yixing teapot was in the collection of one of Europe's most obsessive collectors of Chinese ceramics, Augustus the Strong, the Elector of Saxony (in what is now Germany), who reigned from 1694 to 1733.
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