Factory: Meissen Porcelain Factory
Hard-paste porcelain, glazed, and decorated with painting in polychrome enamels, apricot lustre and gilding. The caddy is of six-sided baluster form with a circular, flat-topped cover. Three sides are decorated with seated Chinese men taking tea, with birds and insects flying overhead. The other three sides have standing Chinese men about to take tea. Below there is a green hoirzontal band. The corners, shoulder, and the side of the cover are gilded. The top of the cover is dcorated with a floral motif in gold on an apricot lustre ground.
History note: Unknown before Sir Richard Jessel
Given by Sir Richard Jessel
Height: 10.1 cm
Width: 8.4 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1972-01-29) by Jessel, Richard, Sir
1720s
Second quarter of 18th century
Frederick Augustus I
Circa
1725
CE
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1730
CE
Decoration composed of enamel gold
Moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted in polychrome enamels, apricot lustre, and gold
Glazing
Accession number: C.4 & A-1972
Primary reference Number: 140280
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Tea-caddy" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140280 Accessed: 2023-02-05 02:48:46
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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140280
|title=Tea-caddy
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-05 02:48:46|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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