New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Tea Canister and Cover

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1780-85

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions5 in. (12.7 cm)

Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II

Object numberL2005.10.110

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 2

DescriptionThis is a 'Ruins' Pattern Tea Canister (A) and Cover (B). The tapering cylindrical body with a rounded shoulder and printed in black on either side with two soldiers bearing pikes or a shepherdess and a traveler near a Borghese vase, all amidst classical ruins, the low domed cover with three landscape vignettes encircling the mushroom knop, and each piece with a black enamel line around the rim.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II