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Norton Museum of Art

The Norton Museum of Art is an art museum located in West Palm Beach, Florida. Its collection includes over 7,000 works, with a concentration in European, American, and Chinese art as well as in contemporary art and photography.

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December 19, 2014 - National Coverage from Elle Decor for the Norton Tea Show:

A Heady Brew

In the early 20th century, the Japanese scholar Kakuzo Okakura defined "Teaism" as "a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence". If it seems that we're living in the heyday of teaism. With new tea shops an salons bubbling up in cities around the world, a show at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, proves that the ritual of sitting down to a steaming cup is nothing new, and has endured for more than amillennium. "High Tea: Glorious Manifestations - East and West" features more than 125 teapots and serving tools, paintings, and garments that illustrate how the humbe drink became a nexus between design, erudition, status, and spirituality. The far-reaching show spans epochs and continents, from 12th-century Korean pottery - which a Chinese enviy deemed "first under Heaven" - to a elegantly austere silver teapot fashioned by Paul Revere; from a glimmering sevres tea service illustrated with portraits of Emperor Napoleon and his family, to wilhelm Wagenfeld's ingenious glass teapot, still in production. Lest you think practitioners of teaism take themselves too seriously, witness the whimsical monkeys on Joachim Kandler's 1735 teapot for meissen, with a baby ape forming the spout (February 19 - May 24; Norton. org).

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February 20, 2015 - Wall Stree Journal

J.S. Marcus

From medieval China to suburban Detroit, from a monkey-shaped pot to a tea urn designed by a renowned Finnish architect, the exhibition “High Tea” celebrates the beverage’s long association with the decorative arts.

The show, subtitled “Glorious Manifestations East and West,” runs through May 24 at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla. It comes as some teatime objects are heating up the auction market. In November, at Sotheby’s London, an 1870s silver-gilt tea and coffee service sold for more than $720,000, far over its $154,000-$230,000 estimate. The Moscow-produced set came from Ovchinnikov, Fabergé’s prerevolutionary rival in the silversmith and jewelry trade.

The show was a labor of love for Laurie Barnes, curator of Chinese art at the Norton and a tea enthusiast. “When I was a student in Taiwan in the 1980s, I took a course with the Ten Ren Tea Co. I learned how to properly prepare tea in Yixing teapots, which are well represented in the exhibition,” she said. The experience, combined with travels to Chinese regions famous for teas and tea bowls, sowed the seeds for the exhibition.

The Norton show includes a Fabergé silver samovar from the early 20th century, commissioned as a gift to a Romanov grand duke and his wife. Russia’s trademark tea-making object gets an American makeover with a 1930s Art Deco tea urn designed by the Finnish-born architect Eliel Saarinen, father of the architect and designer Eero Saarinen. Eliel had just taken up residence at Michigan’s Cranbrook Academy of Art and used this urn at home.

Key pieces on view include a whimsical 18th-century teapot in the shape of a maternal monkey, from Meissen, Saxony’s royal porcelain works. (One of her babies doubles as the spout.) The exhibition’s other stops include the Japan of the Shoguns and the France of Napoleon. Paul Revere, a silversmith by training, contributes a 1780s wooden-handled silver teapot.

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April, 2015 - Asian Art

Martin Barns Lobber

This exhibition is the firt of its kind to examine tea's influence on art and culture around th globe and has been a four-year labour of love by Laurie Barnes, the Norton's Elizabeth B McGraw Curator of Chinese Art and the societal cultures which she explores are those of China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Germany, France, English and the S. The 182 works of art exhibited here are pottery, porcelain, metalwork, paintings, lacquer, glass, furniture, costumes, texiles and texile designs. They cover a span of 1,200 years and comprise private loans, as well as loans from museums and institutions from the US and abroad, as well as the Norton's own collection.

In creating a good balance between East and West, the exhibition includes Western art that illustrates how n the West, tea went hand-in-han with social entertaining ad Asian art that illustrates how the taking of tea was a contempative act, often serving as a social adhesive to small gatherings, be they intimate scholarly or aristocratic group or the Japanese Tea Ceramony. The two recreated Tea Ceramony spaces star remarkable pieces, one of the most notable being an extremely rare Sigaraki mizusashi of the mid-16th century that has been loaned by Peggy and Richard M Danziger.

The Chinese section includes a great chorus of loans as well as 11th/13th-century Song rarities from the Jiyuanshanfang collection that include tea bowls from the great kilns and an exceedingly rare 10th-century Dingyao tea grinder, as well as stunning celadons, such as an elegant 10th/early 11th-century Yaozhou tea cup and matching stand from the Norton's own collection.

The Korean section, a category sometimes overlooked from the aspect of Tea, contains paintings of great Tea masters, a handsome mother-of-pearl inlaid 15th/16th-century small footed stand and some of Korea's famed celadons that include a beautifully glazed Koryo cupstand, probably from the Kangjin kilns.

Exhibition 2015

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High Tea: Glorious Manifestations East and West

February 19, 2015 - May 24, 2015

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Mr. Robert D. Mowry, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art Emeritus,Harvard Art Museums, and Senior Consultant on Chinese and Korean Art, Christie’s, New York, had a speech, discussing the topic of Korean ceramics, with some comparison to Chinese Song ceramics.

Mr. Mowry and Curator Ms. Barnes

Mr. Mowry talked at Norton High Tea show

Spanning a period of 1,200 years from the ninth to early 20th century, and featuring 182 rare objects, this will be the first exhibition to explore the art of tea among the elite in eight key cultures worldwide: China, Korea, Japan, Germany, France, Russia, England and the United States. Objects in the exhibition illustrate important events in each culture as well as major cross-cultural interactions that created new milestones in tea culture.

For this exhibition, The Norton Museum of Art has secured loans from Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago,Brooklyn Museum of Art,Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Newark Museum, Yale Center for British Art,Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Peabody Essex Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, University of Michigan Museum of Art and other important private collections.

The following six pieces of tea wares and tools of Song dynasty, selected from theJiyuanshanfang Collection,were on view at the exhibition "High Tea: Glorious Manifestations East and West":

DING WHITE GLAZED TEA GRINDER

9^th to10^th Century, late Tang (618-907) to early Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)

DING COBWEB-STYLE CARVED DISH

9^TH to10^th Century, late Tang (618-907) to early Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)

QINGBAI LOBED EWER AND COVER

11^th Century, Northern Song Dynasty (1127-1279)

LOBED QINGBAI CUP AND STAND

11^th Century, Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)

JIAN ‘OIL-SPOT’ TEABOWL

11^th Century, Song Dynasty (960-1279)

JIZHOU LEAF-DECORATED CONICAL BOWL

12^th Century, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279)

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Exhibition 2015

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High Tea: Glorious Manifestations East and West

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