IDENTIFIERS
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id:	140280
accession number:	C.4 & A-1972

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2017

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
title:	tea-caddy

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown before Sir Richard Jessel


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Sir Richard Jessel

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140280





TECHNIQUES
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hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted in polychrome enamels, apricot lustre, and gold
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1725 - 1730
creation date earliest:	1725
creation date latest:	1730
culture:	1720s
culture:	18th Century, second quarter#
culture:	Frederick Augustus I

CREATORS
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maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 10.1

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 8.4



CITATIONS
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Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Ausstellung im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München
Meissen Steinzeug und Porzellan des 18 Jahrhunderts, Kunstgewerbemeuseum Berlin
European Ceramics, 25 February 1991
The Dr Sali Guggenheim Collection of Zurich and German Porcelain, 15 May 1995
The Wolfe Collection, 17 June 1998
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