English double tea caddy decorated with mermaids

An image of Double Tea Caddy. Nottingham pottery or Crich pottery, Derbyshire. Two rectangular caddies attached by one of the narrow sides, each having a short cylindrical neck. The decoration is integrally moulded in relief on the long sides with a mermaid with a comb and mirror beside a spray of flowers, repeated four times, and on the narrow ends there is impressed trellis-diaper pattern. The initials and date 'E.H. 1770' are scratched on the base. Lustrous brown salt-glazed stoneware, moulded, height, whole, 13 cm, dated 1770. Rococo.

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Double Tea Caddy. Nottingham pottery or Crich pottery, Derbyshire. Two rectangular caddies attached by one of the narrow sides, each having a short cylindrical neck. The decoration is integrally moulded in relief on the long sides with a mermaid with a comb and mirror beside a spray of flowers, repeated four times, and on the narrow ends there is impressed trellis-diaper pattern. The initials and date 'E.H. 1770' are scratched on the base. Lustrous brown salt-glazed stoneware, moulded, height, whole, 13 cm, dated 1770. Rococo.

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Accession Number: C.1240-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 810 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 283.41kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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18th Century Artistic Movement Date Department English Fitz_AA Georgian Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Predominant Colours Roccoco Rococo Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd brown container double glazed lustre ware lustreware marine mermaid moulded rectangular relief salt-glazed stoneware taking tea tea caddy teaware

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