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In September 2014, the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, will open a new exhibition, dedicated to a subject that is as popular as it is sophisticated: the cultures of drinking tea. It will introducé the most important tea cultures -in China, Japan, the Netherlands and England -and the specific and most diversified ceramics used to enjoy tea. The Princessehof Museum has a collection of around 140 examples of Yixing tea wares, made of a warm, reddish stoneware specifically for brewing tea. It was a great pleasure to use the opportunity of the upcoming exhibition to take a closer look at these small and most charming pots. Many of them were made for the export market, when, starting at the end of the 17th century, tea drinking became very popular in the Netherlands and these pots began to be used, together with small Chinese blue and white cups, on the tables of the wealthy. These teapots were often richly decorated, exclusive and expensive items, soon to be imitated by Delft 'pottenbakers'.1 My remarks here however, will rather refer to Yixing teapots made for the Chinese market, particularly the types of small, undecorated pots, which would not be considered desirable by general West

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Author

Eva Ströber

Publisher

Brill (ISSN 0921-657X)

Published

2014

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)