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Culture:Chinese
Title:canister
Date Made:ca. 1775
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: hard paste porcelain, overglaze polychrome enamels, gilding
Place Made:China
Accession Number:  HD 55.159.2
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Chinese export porcelain tea canister with cover, part of an assembled 18-piece teaset in pink, brown, orange, red, green, and black, which includes the teapot, canister with cover, cream pot, teapot stand, spoon tray, dish, 7 teacups, and 5 saucers. The canister is decorated on two sides with a large three-masted, sailing ship with the Union Jack flying on the stern and a pennant flying from the top of the middle mast. This ship decoration is a standard design, possibly derived from a European print, which could be customized with the appropriate flag of any of the Western traders - in this case, for the English. These could then be readily made for the commander or super-cargo of an East Indiaman as a souvenir of a voyage to the East.

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