Monkey teapot
Porcelain and enamels, J.J. Kändler (modeller), Meissen, Germany, ca.1735
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Monkey teapot
Porcelain and enamels, J.J. Kändler (modeller), Meissen, Germany, ca.1735
The Chitra Collection is an extraordinary private museum of historic teawares. In 2011 Nirmal Sethia, the Chairman of the luxury tea company, Newby Teas, set himself the task of acquiring the world’s greatest collection of teawares to record and preserve tea cultures of the past. Today, the collection, named in honour of his late wife, Chitra, totals almost 2000 objects and is already the world’s finest and most comprehensive collection of its kind.
Porcelain and enamels, J.J. Kändler (modeller), Meissen, Germany, ca.1735
Porcelain and enamels, J.J. Kändler (modeller), Meissen, Germany, ca.1735
Silver-gilt and cloisonné enamel, Pavel Ovchinnikov, Russia, 1896-1908
Silver-gilt and cloisonné enamel, Pavel Ovchinnikov, Russia, 1896-1908
Bloodstone and gold openwork, Germany, ca.1750
Bloodstone and gold openwork, Germany, ca.1750
Silver and ivory, Paul Storr, England, 1814
Silver and ivory, Paul Storr, England, 1814
After a summer on public display in 'A Tea Journey: From the mountains to the table', a temporary exhibition at Compton Verney, this travelling tea set by Meissen will soon travel once again to return to the Chitra Collection. As an exploration of tea's cultural significance through teawares, paintings, poetry and more, we can only encourage you to see this exhibition before it closes in one month! Click the link below to plan your visit: www.comptonverney.org.uk/thing-to-do/a-tea-journey-from-the-mountains-to-the-table/
What a gorgeous set! You can tell from the European interpretation of oriental figures and themes, together with the triple iron red concentric lines that this is a set dating between 1720 and 1730. Here is my early Meissen saucer decorated with a landscape and with the concentric triple lines, c. 1723 (no swords).
If my memory is correct , there s also a-travelling tea set in the Pozzi-Pezzoli Museum in Milan.
