tea caddy

Thomas Whieldon



tea caddy

Thomas Whieldon

Summary

Rectangular press-moulded tea caddy of speckled off-white body, with flat shoulder and stepped cylindrical neck. Sides decorated with four rectangular relief-moulded panels, long sides with scene of Chinese woman standing before small table carrying basket of fruit, with small child in bottom right corner sitting beneath tree. Short sides moulded with Chinese man holding bamboo staff on which perches a bird, with flowering plant in bottom right corner. Each panel outlined with a border of simple rouletted wavy lines. Uneven salt-glaze, much heavier across one side, colouring greyish-green in pools.

Display Label

Salt glazed stoneware tea canister with Chinese scenes circa 1750 Thomas Whieldon, Staffordshire This tea canister reflects the European fashion for all things Chinese, particularly tea and ceramics. Europeans particularly admired the whiteness of Chinese porcelain, but in 1750 this grey, salt-glazed stoneware was the closest that Staffordshire manufacturers could get to white. Thomas Tylston Greg bequest 1923.416


Object Name

tea caddy

Creators Name

Thomas Whieldon

Date Created

c 1750

accession number

1923.416

Place of creation

Staffordshire

Medium

On Display

Manchester Art Gallery - Gallery 19 (Design Gallery) - case 1 - TEMPORARILY CLOSED
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Credit

Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg

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