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Wine Pot

A work made of tin-glazed earthenware (delftware).
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  • A work made of tin-glazed earthenware (delftware).

Date:

c. 1670–c. 1680

Artist:

Delft, Netherlands

About this artwork

Though this jug looks like a tea pot, it was most likely used for wine and modeled on imported Chinese porcelain wine pots. The cobalt blue decoration, with its figures amidst a rocky mountain-filled landscape, also owes its design inspiration to Chinese porcelain. It was made in the city of Delft, in the province of Holland, using local earthenware clay and tin-glaze to answer the European demand for imported porcelain during a period when trade with China was closed.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Applied Arts of Europe

Title

Wine Pot

Place

Delft (Object made in:)

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1670–1680

Medium

Tin-glazed earthenware (Delftware)

Dimensions

14 × 16.6 × 25.8 cm (5 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 10 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Anne and Frederick Vogel III

Reference Number

2011.305

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