Wine Pot
1670–1680
- Medium
- Tin-glazed earthenware (Delftware)
- Dimensions
- Lid: 6.4 × 6.4 × 6.4 cm (2 1/2 × 2 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.); Pot: 11.5 × 16.6 × 10.8 cm (4 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- jugs (vessels)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
chinoiserieglazeearthenwareceramics17th CenturyDrinkingwinedelftwarejugs (vessels)
About
Though this jug looks like a tea pot, it was most likely used for wine and modeled on imported Chinese porcelain wine pots. The cobalt blue decoration, with its figures amidst a rocky mountain-filled landscape, also owes its design inspiration to Chinese porcelain. It was made in the city of Delft, in the province of Holland, using local earthenware clay and tin-glaze to answer the European demand for imported porcelain during a period when trade with China was closed.