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Description: | S��vres, the French national porcelain factory, was founded in 1738. S��vres wares were made for the luxury market. Using brilliant colours and rich gilding, many pieces also have lavishly painted panels, as on this teapot. 18th century teapots are small because tea was an expensive luxury, drunk in small quantities. This was partly the reason for tea's popularity with the upper classes. To pay enormous amounts for tea leaves and make a drink out of them was as great a show of wealth as the tea equipment used. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | art makers ceramics date period | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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