A brown teapot in the Shape of a Plum Blossom.
Shi Dabin (late 16-early 17th century), Teapot in the Shape of a Plum Blossom, 9.5 cm (height), Metropolitan Museum of Art. Inscribed 玉照閣 大彬 Yu zhao ge, Dabin ([for] Jade Radiance Pavilion — [made by] Dabin)

Professor Burnett discusses Yixing ware at the Legion of Honor

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On June 7, Professor Katharine Burnett explored Yixing teapots and the discourse of originality with the San Francisco Ceramics Circle. She presented “The Marvelously Inventive 17th-Century Chinese Teapot (and Some of Its European Descendants)” at the Gunn Theater in the Legion of Honor, San Francisco to the San Francisco Ceramics Circle, an affiliate organization of ceramics enthusiasts connected to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

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