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- Tea Caddy with Chinoiserie Vignettes
Tea Caddy with Chinoiserie Vignettes
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Rectangular with rounded shoulders and cylindrical neck. Vignettes of Chinoiserie figures in landscape, with gilded and painted imbricated borders.
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1770
- Accession Number
- 1938-57-653
- Manufacturer
- Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763
- Style of
- Jacques-Gabriel Huquier, French, 1730 - 1805
- François Boucher, French, 1703–1770
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ceramics
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- tea caddy
- Type
- tea caddy
- Medium
- hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 11.7 × 6.7 × 4.8 cm (4 5/8 × 2 5/8 × 1 7/8 in.)
- manufactured in
- Germany
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- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-57-653
- Usage
- CC0
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