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Tea Caddy with Chinoiserie Vignettes Tea Caddy
This is a tea caddy. It was style of François Boucher and Jacques-Gabriel Huquier and manufactured by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin. It is dated ca. 1770 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
This object was
bequest of
Erskine Hewitt.
It is credited Bequest of Erskine Hewitt.
- Teapot with Chinoiserie Vignettes Teapot
- hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold.
- Bequest of Erskine Hewitt.
- 1938-57-651-a,b
- Tea Caddy (Netherlands)
- brass.
- Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
- 1986-14-6
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 11.7 × 6.7 × 4.8 cm (4 5/8 × 2 5/8 × 1 7/8 in.)
It has the following markings
Underside: [1] scepter, painted in underglaze blue (Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin mark) [2] "OK", impressed underglaze [3] "1310' over 'g=1/2-", written in black ink on paper label,
It is signed
Unsigned
It is inscribed
Uninscribed
Cite this object as
Tea Caddy with Chinoiserie Vignettes Tea Caddy; Manufactured by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin (Germany); Style of Jacques-Gabriel Huquier (French, 1730 - 1805), François Boucher (French, 1703–1770); Germany; hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold; H x W x D: 11.7 × 6.7 × 4.8 cm (4 5/8 × 2 5/8 × 1 7/8 in.); Bequest of Erskine Hewitt; 1938-57-653
