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Object 2012368
Tea caddy
China
1720-1740, over-decorated in the Netherlands 1730-1760
Height including cover 108 mm (4.25 inch), height excluding cover 99 mm (3.90 inch), dimensions 88 mm (3.46 inch) x 53 mm (2.09 inch), weight including cover 291 grams (10.27 ounce (oz.)), weight cover 23 grams (0.81 ounce (oz.))
Tea caddy of rectangular form with canted corners, a flat shoulder with a short upright neck and cover. The flat base is unglazed. Decorated in underglaze blue around the foot, the shoulder and on the shoulder with a stylised border of folded leaves with reserves filled with a floret between scrolls. Around the cover a silk worm pattern border and on top flowering aster plants. Over-decorated in the Netherlands, Amsterdams Bont c.1730-1760, in iron-red, gold and various overglaze enamels with a chinoiserie of a sitting Lady doing some needle work in a fenced garden landscape with rockwork and flowering plants and trees. The short upright neck is flanked by groups of flowering plants. On the sides of the cover half flower heads with leafy branches alternating with insects in flight, On top of the cover various flowering plants.
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Condition: A chip to the shoulder and loss of glaze to various spots of the edges of the tea caddy and cover.
Price: Sold.
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