Caddy
- Object Name:
- Caddy
- Object ID:
- 1957.049 a-b
- Place of Origin:
- China
- Date:
- 1800
- Description:
- Tea Caddy with Cover. Chinese Export Porcelain, Purple and gold painted. Rectangle form with sloping shoulders and straight-sided neck. Mold lines present. Disk-shaped lid with nutmeg-shaped finial. Hand painted overglaze decoration includes bands of gold and purple around top edge, small flower clusters on the front and back and a diamond and dot pattern around the rim. Gold and purple band also encircles the lid. Finial also painted in gold and purple. Donor information written in pencil on the bottom and around the lid.
- Material:
- Ceramic
Porcelain - Dimensions:
- H-5.7 W-3.3 D-1.7 inches
- Provenance:
- According to the donor the tea caddy belonged her great-grandfather Richard Peabody Kent (1805-1885) of Lancaster, NH. It may have belonged to Richard Peabody Kent's parents John and Tabitha (Peabody) Kent of Lyman, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Barbara C. Jenkins
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