Ontwerp voor een theepot 1874 - 1945

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made this design for a teapot with pencil and watercolour on paper. It's all blues and whites and sketch-lines, the kind of marks that feel immediate, capturing a thought as it forms. You can see the process, the thinking through the medium. The paint is thin, watery almost, allowing the paper to breathe beneath, adding to the lightness of touch. I’m really drawn to the subtle variations in the blue, from the almost transparent washes to the deeper, more concentrated lines defining the shape and patterns. Those squiggles, they remind me of smoke or vines, and they give a sense of movement, and life. Cachet seems to channel influences such as Art Nouveau or Japonisme, which is so evocative. The design feels modern, but also timeless. It's like all art, always talking to each other across time.