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

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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