Teapots shape based taxonomy
The existing variety of teapots underlines the life style through different phases and describes the evolution of each period. In fact, the form follows the functionality.
Shapes range from old fashioned which continue to be popular, to innovative.
Teapots were first invented in China as early as the Yuan era, but only expanded by the Ming dynasty. The first pieces were small because designed for individual use.
In England, the round bowled spoons with knobbed handles of the seventeenth century were replaced by basting spoons with a dog nose terminal and rat tail beneath an oval bowl in the late seventeenth. With the transition to the old English plain in 1805, there was the basting spoon with its curved downward stem which looks like a violin. Other examples include mote spoons, narrow scoops and a fish slice.
When initially introduced in England on 1658, the tea was costly, but by the eighteenth century, it became affordable and was served in porcelaine and stoneware teapots brought to Europe from China. However, people need to rise their social level, led to more elegant serving tea procedures. Consequently, some examples of kettles made in 1733 with wood handles to prevent the heat from flowing through the silver were akin to the bullet shaped teapots of today. In the eighteenth century, cream was served with tea and this created the need of baluster shaped jugs and cream pitchers with wide lip to accommodate the slow pouring liquid.
Similarly, Yixing potters has hundreds of teapots which can be divided into three main categories.
The first consists of archaic bronzes, jades and tiles shapes, the second are natural forms such as flowers, plants and fruits.This group can be subdivided into two sections :the naturalistic and the impressionistic. Thirdly there are the geometrical shapes such as spherical, cylindrical, cubic and rectangular.
Yixing teapots taxonomy
link1:The Baruch Collection,Catherine Wilson Horne,Mc Kissick Museum,USA,1988.
link2:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot
link3:Michael Graham Dixon,Thestonewares of Yixing,Hong kong press,Hong Kong,1986
link4:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yixing_clay_teapot
link5:Anne Anderson,Feraful consequences of living up to one's teapot,Victorian literature and culture,USA,2009
link6:Yixing clay teapot classificatiotn
link7:Yixing clay teapot
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