Teapot
Unknown Artist
This teapot, in both its shape and relief decoration, demonstrates the penchant for Japonisme during the Aesthetic Movement. The distinctive shape with flat sides has prototypes in English pottery. The molded decoration of bamboo and swallows are motifs popular in the period.
Credit: Gift of Barrie and Deedee Wigmore, 2002
1879-83
Ceramic
17.8 x 22.9cm
2002.142a, b
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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