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Tea-caddy and cover

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Tea caddy and cover in hard-paste porcelain, rectangular flat base rising to curved shoulder and cylindrical bottle neck, the cover domed with a raised circular knop; bulk export ware painted in underglaze blue with 'Nankin' landscapes featuring pagodas and trees separated by a river, a man riding a horse across a bridge whilst shielded by a fan-bearer, a fisherman on a boat, across the curved upper shoulder and on the knop is an elaborate composite border pattern of scales, flowers, foliage and trellises, plain bands of gilding to neck, shoulder, foot and the rim and knop of the cover added in London.

Tea-caddy and cover
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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 32143

Creation/Production

Unknown
Date: 1780-1800

Acquisition

Bequest, 1929
Given by W.S de Winton

Measurements

Height (cm): 12.5
Height (in): 5
Length (cm): 7.9
Length (in): 3
Depth (cm): 3.9
Depth (in): 1

Techniques

moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art

Material

hard-paste porcelain

Location

Gallery 11A : Case 02

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Categories

Porslen Tsieina | Chinese porcelain Porslen Dwyreiniol | East Asian porcelain Porslen | Porcelain Cerameg | Ceramics Celf Gymhwysol | Applied Art Inventory level
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