Teapot with Landscape and Imperial Poem
Chen Hanwen (Chinese, active c. 1720s–90s)
1762–95
- Medium
- Stoneware, with gold pigment, Yixing ware
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in.); with spout: 15 cm (5 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- China, Jiangsu province, Yixing, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign (1736–95)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This teapot with a polished surface shows an imperial poem in gold on one side and a landscape on the other. The poem in archaic seal script was composed by the Qianlong emperor on his third southern inspection tour in 1762, when he traveled to southern China to solidify his rule. The base bears a stamped seal of its maker. Yixing potters produced teapots primarily for Ming dynasty literati-officials who valued simplicity and restraint, until the early Qing emperors introduced them at court.
