tea caddy
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
Date Created
c 1750
accession number
1923.416
Collection Group
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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