- Museum number
- C431A
C431B - Object
- Teapot with lid, part of a set, Tournai Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain, about 1765
- Description
- Tea pot and cover, French, Tournai, c. 1765. Soft-paste porcelain decorated in enamel colours with gilding. Part of a cabaret with C 428, 430, 429. The pot with scroll handle highlighted with gilding, as is the spout, the body painted on iether side with scenes of exotic birds on rocks and in branches, the cover with scroll handle highlighted in gilding, gilt rim, and painted with three birds.
- Materials
- Porcelain
- Inscription
- Tournai cipher in gold
- On display?
- Yes
Further description
- Simple name
- Drinking Accessories
Lid - Subject
- Birds
- Dimensions
- regular: 17.3cm (d) x 9.5cm (h) x 13.0cm (w)
Teapot, teacup and saucer and covered sugar bowl
Tournai Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain, about 1765
C429, C430 & C431
Along with flowers, birds provided rich decorative subject matter for eighteenth-century porcelain painters. Broadly painted imaginary birds, derived from Chinese phoenixes, were known as ho ho birds. Today they are sometimes categorised as Exotic, Fabulous, Dishevelled, Aggressive or Agitated depending on their appearance. Real birds were copied from engravings in books such as Georges-Louis-Leclerc Buffon’s Natural History of Birds (1771).
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