Collections: Decorative Arts: Teapot and Lid from Three Piece Tea Service, Kyoto Homage Pattern

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Teapot and Lid from Three Piece Tea Service, Kyoto Homage Pattern

• Maker: Dorothy Hafner, American, born 1953
• Medium: Porcelain
• Place Manufactured: New York, New York, USA
• Dates: Designed 1980; Manufactured 1987
• Dimensions: 9 x 9 1/4 x 3 5/8 in. (22.9 x 23.5 x 9.2 cm)
• Markings: Impressed on underside of teapot, lower right: (in script) "Dorothy Hafner"
• Signature: In black on underside of teapot: (in script) "Dorothy Hafner '87 / ©1980"
• Inscriptions: no inscriptions
• Collections: Decorative Arts
• Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
• Accession Number: 87.120.1a-b
• Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Weiss
• Image: Group, 87.120.1a-b_87.120.2a-b_87.120.3_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
Dorothy Hafner (American, born 1953). Teapot and Lid from Three Piece Tea Service, Kyoto Homage Pattern, Designed 1980; Manufactured 1987. Porcelain, 9 x 9 1/4 x 3 5/8 in. (22.9 x 23.5 x 9.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Dorothy Weiss, 87.120.1a-b (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 87.120.1a-b_87.120.2a-b_87.120.3_bw.jpg)
• Catalogue Description: Porcelain teapot (a) and lid (b), white ground with vitreous glaze, "Kyoto Homage" pattern. Horizontal, rectangular shaped teapot, slightly bowed on long sides; short, truncated, semi-conical spout; rattan handle attached through two applied porcelain loops on top of pot. Flat rectangular lid with strip finial. The teapot is decorated with turquoise, lavender, peach, terracotta and black in abstract patterns. Front and rear of pot has ground of diagonal and vertical bands of color and a reserve of white with "confetti" pattern interior. Ends are terracotta, "double dot" pattern; top is lavender, "double dot"; lid is turquoise, "double dot". Part of three-piece tea service, 87.120.2a-b (sugar bowl) & 87.120.3 (creamer). CONDITION: Fine