Description:
With no Chinese porcelain protypes 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 blackware eight-sided, tea canister with a round, flat-topped cover, part of an eighteen-piece teaset consisting of a teapot and cover, cream pot and cover, sugar bowl and cover, tea canister and cover, waste bowl, plate, six teacups, and six saucers. According to Robin Reilly, this type of ceramic, often called Jackfield-type or blackware, was used at a factory in Jackfield, Shropshire, around 1750, and by a number ot Staffordshire potters such as Thomas Whieldon and Josiah Wedgwood for the middle-class market. Blackwares are made of a red clay coated with a lustrous black glaze (dark brown, manganese and iron-based lead glaze) that can look similar in appearance to Asian lacquerware, and are often decorated with "cold" or unfired gilding. All the pieces in this set are relief-decorated with naturalistic, sprig-moulded roses and scrolling branches with vine leaves and grapes.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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