Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1810-1825
Materials:wood, lacquer, pewter,
Technique:painted
Dimensions:Height: 15.50 centimetres Length: 38.50 centimetres Width: 26.50 centimetres
Description:
Painted lacquer tea chest showing landscape scenes with four pewter tea caddies.
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Comments:With the advent of direct trade by American vessels in the mid-1780s the market for export lacquers, mostly black with gilt and some details in red, increased greatly. Available forms included desks and dressing mirrors and small items such as jewellery and sewing boxes and, tea caddies. Most caddies were fitted with removable pewter liners for both black and green varieties of tea. This caddy is considerably larger because it is fitted with four pewter caddies, each boldly incised with floral, figural or landscape patterns on its exposed top. A comparable, slightly larger tea chest containing six pewter tea caddies, covered in black lacquer with gold painting in leaf-and-fruit motif on a diaper ground, is dated to the Qing dynasty, late 18th century and in the Irving collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.(Watt, J.C.Y. and Ford, B. East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, no. 69, pp. 148-9) Another smaller tea box containing two pewter tea caddies, also covered in black lacquer with gold decoration and with the monogram WJCCB on the lid, is dated to about 1790-1820 and is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.(Clunas, G. Chinese Export Art and Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, no. 71, p. 93) A further comparable lacquered box containing two tea caddies, with convex edges and decorated with ivory and brass fittings, is dated to the early to mid-19th century and was exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1984.
Materials:wood, lacquer, pewter,
Technique:painted
Dimensions:Height: 15.50 centimetres Length: 38.50 centimetres Width: 26.50 centimetres
Description:
Painted lacquer tea chest showing landscape scenes with four pewter tea caddies.
IMG
Comments:With the advent of direct trade by American vessels in the mid-1780s the market for export lacquers, mostly black with gilt and some details in red, increased greatly. Available forms included desks and dressing mirrors and small items such as jewellery and sewing boxes and, tea caddies. Most caddies were fitted with removable pewter liners for both black and green varieties of tea. This caddy is considerably larger because it is fitted with four pewter caddies, each boldly incised with floral, figural or landscape patterns on its exposed top. A comparable, slightly larger tea chest containing six pewter tea caddies, covered in black lacquer with gold painting in leaf-and-fruit motif on a diaper ground, is dated to the Qing dynasty, late 18th century and in the Irving collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.(Watt, J.C.Y. and Ford, B. East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, no. 69, pp. 148-9) Another smaller tea box containing two pewter tea caddies, also covered in black lacquer with gold decoration and with the monogram WJCCB on the lid, is dated to about 1790-1820 and is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.(Clunas, G. Chinese Export Art and Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, no. 71, p. 93) A further comparable lacquered box containing two tea caddies, with convex edges and decorated with ivory and brass fittings, is dated to the early to mid-19th century and was exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1984.
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