Cocktails with a Curator™: Böttger's 'Teapot'

In this week’s episode of Cocktails with a Curator™, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon delves into the significance of a deceptively simple teapot designed by Johann Friedrich Böttger and given to the Frick by the great German-born collector Henry H. Arnhold (1921–2018). Enjoy a Saxon cocktail while exploring the complicated history behind Böttger’s quest to discover the formula for porcelain in a clifftop fortress outside Dresden in the early 18th century.

Cocktail Recipe

Saxon
1 3/4 oz white rum
1/2 oz lime juice
1/2 teaspoon of grenadine syrup
garnish with orange peel

Audiences under 21 are encouraged to join with a non-alcoholic drink.

Mocktail Recipe

3/4 pomegranate juice
1/4 lime juice
serve on the rocks and garnish with mint

Link(s): Watch this video on YouTube "Teapot with Cover"

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Cocktails with a Curator™: Reynolds’s "Selina, Lady Skipwith"

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Cocktails with a Curator™: Bruegel the Elder's "Three Soldiers"

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Cocktails with a Curator™: Gentile da Fabriano’s “Madonna and Child with Saints”

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Cocktails with a Curator™: Rosalba Carriera’s Portraits

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Cocktails with a Curator™: David’s “Comtesse Daru”

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Cocktails with a Curator™: Antico’s “Hercules”

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Cocktails with a Curator™: Claude’s “Jacob, Rachel, and Leah at the Well”

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Cocktails with a Curator™: Piero della Francesca

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23:17

Cocktails with a Curator™: Murillo's "Self-Portrait"

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19:43

Cocktails with a Curator™: Monet's "Vétheuil in Winter"

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18:07

Cocktails with a Curator™: Tiepolo's "Perseus and Andromeda"

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21:00

Cocktails with a Curator™: Chardin's "Still Life with Plums"

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Cocktails with a Curator™: Romney's "Lady Hamilton as 'Nature'"

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21:01

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24:43

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