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Tea-caddy and cover
Tea-caddy, hard-paste porcelain, oval shape with rounded spreading foot-rim, straight sides, rounded shoulder and straight-sided neck, oval cover with straight sides and rounded top, to the top of the cover a finial modelled in the form of a bunch of grapes, moulded leaves around the base of the finial; the exterior body of the tea-caddy and the sides of the cover covered with a thickly spotted decoration of floral sprigs in polychrome enamels, including roses and pansies, and smaller gilt leaf sprigs, gilt lines around the shoulder and base of the neck of the tea-caddy and the rim of the cover, the finial painted in puce and green, the moulded leaves picked out in gilt.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35609
Creation/Production
Gera Porcelain Factory
Date: 1790-1800
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 9.6
Length
(cm): 5.8
Width
(cm): 5
Height
(in): 3
Length
(in): 2
Width
(in): 1
Techniques
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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