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Tea canister and cover
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Tea canister and cover
- Place of origin:
Worcester, England (made)
- Date:
ca. 1760 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Royal Worcester (manufacturer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
- Credit Line:
Bequeathed by D. M. Currie
- Museum number:
C.381&A-1921
- Gallery location:
Ceramics Study Galleries, Britain & Europe, room 139, case 4, shelf 1
Physical description
Tea canister and cover of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with irregular scrolled panels of different sizes, reserved on a dark scale-blue ground and outlined in gold.
[Teapoy] Tea canister of oviform shape with a short narrow cylindrical neck decorated in gilt with oval rosettes and a diaper pattern of criss-cross and dots, and spreading foot. Two panels contain, respectively, the figures of a man playing a triangle and a woman playing the guitar, both in pseudo-oriental costume.
[Cover] Small domed cover. Panels containing exotic birds, insects and foliage.
Place of Origin
Worcester, England (made)
Date
ca. 1760 (made)
Artist/maker
Royal Worcester (manufacturer)
Materials and Techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Marks and inscriptions
A fretted square
Dimensions
Height: 13.9 cm with cover, Diameter: 7.9 cm
Descriptive line
Tea canister and cover of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1760.
Materials
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques
Painted; Gilded
Subjects depicted
Man; Woman; Birds; Foliage; Scrolls; Insects; Rosettes; Diaper; Dots; Guitar; Triangle
Categories
Porcelain; Ceramics
Collection code
CER
