- Title:
- Teapot ('chadan')
- Object name(s):
- Ewer
- Brief description:
- This 'bidri ware' 'Chadan' (Teapot) with a lid is made of zinc and copper alloy, blackened, and inlaid with silver. Decorated with a trellis containing a flower with bands of floral and other ornament.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Entertainment & Leisure
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2020MR0576/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 15.6
- Dimension:
- Diameter
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 10.6
- Material:
- Alloy
- Material:
- Silver
- Object history note:
- Purchased by Caspar Purdon Clarke at Purnea for the South Kensington Museum on a visit to India between 1880 and 1881.
- Object name:
- Ewer
- Object number:
- IS.1582:1-1883
- Object production date:
- c.1880
- Date - association:
- Made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1880-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1880-12-31
- Object production note:
- Purnea is the district town of Purnea district of Bihar in present day India. Described elsewhere as Pornia
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Object production place:
- Purnea
- Place association:
- Made
- Physical description:
- This 'bidri ware' 'Chadan' (Teapot) with a lid is made of zinc and copper alloy, blackened, and inlaid with silver. Decorated with a trellis containing a flower with bands of floral and other ornament.
- Reproduction number:
- 2020MR0576
- Responsible department/section:
- SSEA
- Technique:
- Inlay
- Technique:
- Blackened zinc alloy overlaid with silver (bidri)
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) :
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Stronge, Susan, Bidri Ware Inlaid Metalwork from India, London: Victoria & Albert Museum, no.73, p.83. ISBN 0 905209 63 X
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p.72
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