Description:
With no Chinese porcelain prototypes to copy, British ceramic tea canisters of the 18th century took several different forms. They are mostly, however, square or octagonal with a wide cylindrical lip, and seem to derive from the japanned metal canisters used for displaying and dispensing tea and coffee in grocers' shops. By contrast, smarter tea canisters of glass or silver tended to copy the wooden tea chest, complete with its wavy metal edging and corners. Only later in the century was the little baluster-shaped canister copied by English porcelain factories (for example, Worcester) which imitated Chinese vase-like versions made solely for export. English pearlware, double tea cannister in green, blue, and yellow with chinoiserie decoration which was taken from "A New Book of Chinese Designs..." by George Edwards (1694-1773) and Matthew (or Matthias) Darly (w.1741-1780) published in London in 1754. The six side panels, which are outlined in yellow, have two lady-and-child motifs in molded relief taken from Plate 21 of "Chinese Designs:" a Chinese lady looking down at a small child with upraised arms alternating with a Chinese lady watching a child with an urn on the floor. The top of the rectangular, molded bluish-white body has two sockets which are cut to receive screw lids (now missing), and is decorated with groups of impressed green circles with blue dots around each opening; the edges, which are outlined in blue, have a greek key motif.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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