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Photo: Susan Dirk
Hexagonal tea caddy (originally called Canister)
Photo: Susan Dirk

Hexagonal tea caddy (originally called Canister)

Dateca. 1715-20
Label TextThe early formula in Germany produced a creamy white porcelain. Because porcelain shrinks more in firing than stoneware, the porcelain tea caddy is smaller than the unglazed stoneware caddy from the same mold.
Object number69.183
ProvenanceCollection of Mr and Mrs Henry and Martha Isaacson, unknown purchase date until December 1969; gift from Mr and Mrs Henry and Martha Isaacson to Seattle Art Museum, Washington, 1969
Photo CreditPhoto: Susan Dirk
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Porcelain Stories From China To Europe", February 17 - May 7, 2000 (2/17 - 5/7/2000)Published ReferencesFroula, Christina. "Proust's China," in Modernism / modernity, Vol. 19, no. 2, April 2012, pp. 227-254, illus. p. 235, fig. 4 Emerson, Julie. "Coffee, Tea and Chocolate Wares in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1991, no. 2, p. 14 Emerson, Julie, Jennifer Chen, & Mimi Gardner Gates. "Porcelain Stories From China To Europe." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 2000, pp. 30-31 Qian, Zhaoming (ed.). Modernism and the Orient. New Orleans: University of New Orleans Press, 2012; p. 83, reproduced fig. 4.
Credit LineGift of Martha and Henry Isaacson
Dimensions4 3/4 in. (12.07 cm), height 1 5/8 in. (4.13 cm), diameter
MediumBöttger porcelain
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