Still Life: Tea Set, about 1781-1783. Creator: Jean-Etienne Liotard.

Still Life: Tea Set, about 1781-1783. Creator: Jean-Etienne Liotard.

3-035-636 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Still Life: Tea Set, about 1781-1783. In this painting of tea-time disarray, a tray is set with six cups and saucers, a teapot, sugar bowl, milk jug, and a lidded vase perhaps containing an extra supply of tea leaves. A large bowl holding a teacup and saucer could also be used for dumping the slops of cold tea and used tea leaves. By the time Liotard painted this work in the late 1700s, tea-drinking had become fashionable among the middle as well as the upper classes. Liotard contrasted the luxurious materials of Chinese porcelain and silver with a cheaper tray of painted tin, known as tôle, that imitated Asian lacquer.


Image Details


People Information

Creator
  1. Jean-Etienne Liotard, attributed to: Swiss: Artist, painter

Picture Type
  1. Painting
  2. Still life

Category Hierarchy

Lifestyle & Leisure Food & Drink

Artistic Representations Still Lifes


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4960x3603
File Size : 52,357kb


Aliases

  1. 84.PA.57
  1. 103RG0
  1. 1200000239
  1. 3-035-636
  1. 3035636
  1. 84.PA.57

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