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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Tea Caddy

ca. 1735-1750 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tea caddy of hard-paste porcelain. Rectangular, lower half relief-moulded with gadroons. Painted in underglaze blue with a band of scale ornament with reserves with figures fishing and birds on rocks and leaves. The reliefs treated as panels with flowers and insects. On the shoulder Indian flowers.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in underglaze blue
Brief description
Tea caddy, hard-paste porcelain, painted in underglaze blue, Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, about 1735-50.
Physical description
Tea caddy of hard-paste porcelain. Rectangular, lower half relief-moulded with gadroons. Painted in underglaze blue with a band of scale ornament with reserves with figures fishing and birds on rocks and leaves. The reliefs treated as panels with flowers and insects. On the shoulder Indian flowers.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Crossed swords (Factory mark, in underglaze blue)
  • 'P' (Impressed)
  • '3' (In underglaze blue)
Production
Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.
Bibliographic reference
Honey, W. B. Dresden china: an introduction to the study of Meissen porcelain. London: A. & C. Black, 1934, Pl. XI (b), p. 71.
Collection
Accession number
C.156-1928

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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