Tea Caddy

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Tea Caddy

Datec. 1750–1765

Made inEngland

MediumLead-glazed earthenware

Dimensions5 × 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (12.7 × 8.3 × 7 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Object numberB.60.34

Current Location

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

Ceramics Study Room

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

CERAMICS

DescriptionPotters made agateware by combining and layering different colors of clay before forming the pots on the wheel or in molds. When thrown on a potter’s wheel, agateware typically exhibits swirling spirals of color. The most elaborately patterned agatewares feature clays stacked in thin layers before rolling, slicing, and recombining the components into slabs that the potter pressed into molds. This tea caddy would have stored dry tea and placed on a tea table or other surface, in combination with a teapot and a kettle.
Provenance[D. M. & P. Manheim, New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, March 16, 1960; given to MFAH, by 1966.

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