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Object 2010529

Tea caddy

China

1720-1740, over-decorated in England 1750-1770

Height 107 mm (4.21 inch), dimensions 41 mm (1.61 inch) x 82 mm (3.23 inch)

Tea caddy of rectangular form with canted corners on a flat, unglazed base with original cover. Underglaze brown-edged rim (jia mangkou). Decorated in underglaze blue around the foot and shoulder with a border of folded leaves with reserves filled with a floret between scrolls. Over-decorated with iron-red, gold and other overglaze enamels in the England, clobbered, c.1750-1770 with large panels filled with a riverscape alternating with smaller panels filled with flowering plants reserved on a flower head-pattern ground. On the flat shoulder two groups of flowering plants. The cover is decorated and over-decorated en suite.

Condition: Some firing flaws to the neck, the original cover restored.

Reference:

Sargent 2012, p.183

Price: Sold.