England, Staffordshire
Punch Pot
INV-2150
England, Staffordshire1755–65
Punch Pot
England, Staffordshire
salt-glazed stonewarestoneware
Date
1755–65
Medium
Salt-glazed stoneware, polychrome enamels
Dimensions
19.7 × 31 × 20.1 cm (7 3/4 × 12 3/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Charles Netcher II
Considerably larger than a teapot, this vessel was probably used for punch, a hot drink made with red wine and spices that was a popular beverage in 18th-century England. The naturalism of the handle and spout, modeled in the form of crabapple branches, contrasts with the imaginative freedom of the colorful painted figures. The unknown artist took these vignettes from a series of prints engraved after the work of the French artist François Boucher (1703–1770).
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