tea caddy

Summary

Public: Rectangular tea caddy with tapering neck, cream coloured earthenware, relief-moulded on each side with figure of Apollo and classical ornaments, touched with yellow, green and brown underglaze oxides bleeding into lead glaze. Private: Rectangular tea caddy, sides flaring slightly toward flattened shoulder rising to narrow rectangular neck. Cream coloured body moulded in high relief on each side with figure of Apollo playing a lyre, flanked on short sides by two laurel pillars topped with grotesque heads, and on long sides by laurel pillar to right, classical scroll and leaf ornaments to left. Each side outlined with narrow borders of alternating quatrefoil and circle strapwork. Neck panels outlined with same border, two long panels containing formal scroll ornament, two short panels grotesque head surmounting leaf ornament. Borders picked out in deep yellow, ornaments and drapery on figures picked out in green, eyes in manganese brown, all colours bleeding into lead glaze. Flat rectangular cover, plain but for relief border of alternating quatrefoils and circles, picked out with green stained glaze.