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Teapot Teapot
This is a teapot. It was designed by Chunghi Choo and made by Chunghi Choo. It is dated 1988 and we acquired it in 1992. Its medium is silver-plated copper, anodized aluminum, onyx. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Choo creates vessels intended to add heightened sensuousness and a feeling of celebration to daily life. Choo says of this piece that the “handle and knob are three-dimensional transcriptions of strokes of my brush calligraphy; sweeping movements of my brush . . . give [my work] a flowing line of energy.”
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Going with the Flow.
					
		
									It is credited Purchase in memory of Mildred Rosenberg, Gift of her Family..
						
- Teapot with Chinoiserie Vignettes Teapot
 - hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold.
 - Bequest of Erskine Hewitt.
 - 1938-57-651-a,b
 
- Signature Collection: Picnic Flatware Dinner Knife, 1986
 - anodized aluminum.
 - Museum purchase from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
 - 1986-94-1
 
- Hanging, Red Royal, 1976
 - silk, synthetic lining.
 - Gift of Jack Lenor Larsen.
 - 1985-56-1
 
Our curators have highlighted 8 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Doorbell Pull, from the Hôtel Guimard, Paris, France Doorbell Pull
 - bronze, gold.
 - Gift of Mme. Hector Guimard.
 - 1948-114-5
 
- Object ID #18175593
 - hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
 - Gift of Mrs. Edward Luckemeyer.
 - 1912-13-2-a,b
 
- Bubbles Chaise Longue
 - layered and bent corrugated cardboard.
 - Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper-Hewitt,....
 - 2012-3-1
 
Its dimensions are
H x W x D (a,b): 17.3 x 45.5 x 11 cm (6 13/16 x 17 15/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Incised on underside of teapot: Chunghi Choo (signature) above 1988
Cite this object as
Teapot Teapot; Designed by Chunghi Choo (American, b. Korea, 1938); USA; silver-plated copper, anodized aluminum, onyx; H x W x D (a,b): 17.3 x 45.5 x 11 cm (6 13/16 x 17 15/16 x 4 5/16 in.); Purchase in memory of Mildred Rosenberg, Gift of her Family.; 1992-33-1-a,b
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Making Design.