Coffee Pot
Location
Era
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Title
Coffee Pot
Date
About 1710
Materials
Porcelain, painted decoration in underglaze blue, silver
Dimensions
32.3 x 21.5 x 15.7 cm
Credits
Gift of Joan McQueen Lindsay in memory of her mother, Johanna McQueen, inv. 2019.64
Collection
Decorative Arts and Design
By the end of the seventeenth century, coffee drinking was a craze in Europe that generated an escalating demand for porcelain coffee sets. This interesting object, featuring scenes from the European myth of the abduction of Europa, as well as traditional Chinese decorative motifs, speaks volumes on the extent of globalization and transcultural exchanges between China and the West in the eighteenth century.
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