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Details
- Date
- circa 1728
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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11.4 x 8.7 cm diam
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a - canister, 10.2 x 8.7 cm
b - lid, 2 x 4.5 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- L2010.190.a-b
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Meissen
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About
The shape is unusual, most Meissen tea canisters of this period being of a simpler hexagonal form. The man holding up an incense burner on two poles is taken from a print by JG Höroldt dated 1726. The other figures, including a man holding a bowl of tea, are presumably also based on Höroldt designs. The accompanying sprigs of foliage imitate the limited palette and stylised form found on Japanese Kakiemon porcelain.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Grand Courts Collection Rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2025
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 16 (colour illus.). cat.no. 4
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