Small teapot

Object Details

• Artist

  Ah Leon 陳景亮 (Taiwan, born 1953)

• Description

  Small, brown clay teapot with lid; updated version of traditional Yixing ware. Compressed globular body on round foot ring; spout described by the artist as "resembling a pig's snout" (i.e. flared opening, constricted waist, and wide base where it joins vessel body). Sieve at interior base of spout. C-shaped handle--with steam hole--sited high on shoulder of pot. Lid with tall knob. Slightly concave base incised with artist's signature and date.

• Inscriptions

  1. (Jan Stuart, 23 September 1997) The teapot is signed on the bottom with the artist's name written in Chinese characters and with a date in Arabic numerals -- 10.6.91. The series number, 670, is also neatly engraved into the bottom.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Origin

  Taibei, Taiwan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Chou Yi-Hsiung

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1990s

• Name

  Leon, Ah

• Place

  Taibei, China, Taiwan

• Topic

  Tea, Contemporary Art, Art, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Ceramics, Modern period (1912 - present), Yixing ware

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)