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Worcester 'French Shape' Fluted Ovoid Tea Canister and Cover

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1785

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm)

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

Object numberL2005.10.275

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 3

DescriptionThis is a Worcester "French shape" fluted ovoid tea canister (A) and cover (B). It is decorated with six gilt S-scroll motifs forming elongated "figure eights" interrupting a garland of turquoise and black garrya husks and pendants, all between a gros blue border edged in gilt dentil. There are C-scroll bands around the shoulder and a band of turquoise and black garrya husks around the lower body. The cover is similarly decorated around the floral sprig knop. The cover has chips under the rim and a hair cracked flange. The knop has been reattached.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II