Factory: Meissen Porcelain Factory
Red stoneware cut and polished; silver lid. Rectangular with straight sides and top, which has a rectangular aperture in the middle into which the cover fits. It is decorated on all sides with cut daisies, tulips, stylized flowers, sprays of leaves, insects and snakes. The lid is engraved with a spray of leaves across the corners and a fruit in the centre surrounding the knob.
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Depth: 5.4 cm
Height: 11.1 cm
Width: 9.6 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: Bought (1939-05)
Early 18th Century
Frederick I
Augustus II
Circa
1710
CE
-
1715
CE
Tea Caddy
composed of
red stoneware
Lid
composed of
silver
Accession number: EC.12 & A-1939
Primary reference Number: 140392
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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