1985.R.930.A-C, Teapot, porcelain, China, 18th century

Introduced into Europe during the 17th century, tea drinking was a popular custom by the middle of the 18th century. Tea, spices, silks, and porcelain made up most of the cargoes of the sailing ships of the Dutch, English, Danish, Swedish, and Portugese East India Companies. Wealthy Europeans demanded more varied and colorful tea wares than the familiar blue and white Canton. The Reves Collection has a group of unusual teapots which indicate how China responded to this increasingly sophisticated taste.

This teapot is of traditional Chinese shape with sloping, swelling sides and a domed lid. It has applied porcelain reliefs of plum blossoms, twigs, and chrysanthemums as well as painted borders in iron-red and gold. The lid finial is naturalistically modeled in the form of a leafed twig. 

Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1985), 201.

Introduced into Europe during the 17th century, tea drinking was a popular custom by the middle of the 18th century. Tea, spices, silks, and porcelain made up most of the cargoes of the sailing ships of the Dutch, English, Danish, Swedish, and Portugese East India Companies. Wealthy Europeans demanded more varied and colorful tea wares than the familiar blue and white Canton. The Reves Collestion has a group of unusual teapots which indicate how China responded to this increasingly sophisticated taste.

The teapot on the left is of traditional Chinese shape with sloping, swelling sides and a domed lid. It has applied porcelain reliefs of plum blossoms, twigs, and chrysanthemums as well as painted borders in iron-red and gold. The lid finial is naturalistically modeled in the form of a leafed twig. The other teapot is the same shape, but has applied leaves, twigs, and squirrels in iron-red, green, and gold. 

Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1985), 201.

Until 1985: Emery Reves (1904-1983) and Wendy Reves (1916-2007) (owned jointly), La Pausa, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France [1]

From 1985: Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, gift of Wendy Reves (1916-2007) [1]

[1] According to: Olivier Meslay and Martha MacLeod, From Chanel to Reves (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2015), 4-5.

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