Tea caddy
Decoration of stylized Japanese women wearing orange robes, walking on high footed sandals, and carrying parasols wraps around this small, gilded tea caddy. Made of Belleek by the Willetts Manufacturing Company, the opaque decoration on this delicate vessel departs from earlier decorative efforts to highlight the medium’s paper thin, almost translucent porcelain bodies. Instead, the sumptuous gilding and stylized decoration on this caddy would have been well-suited to the fascination for Japanese and Japanesque designed objects in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Artwork Details
- Title:Tea caddy
- Manufacturer:Willets Manufacturing Company (American, 1879–1908)
- Date:ca. 1890–1910
- Geography:Made in Trenton, New Jersey, United States
- Culture:American
- Medium:Porcelain
- Dimensions:Height (with lid): 5 in. (12.7 cm)
- Credit Line:The Florence I. Balasny-Barnes Collection, Gift of Florence I. Balasny-Barnes, 2008
- Object Number:2025.794.14
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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Possibly Willets Manufacturing Company (American, 1879–1908)
ca. 1900
Willets Manufacturing Company (American, 1879–1908)
ca. 1887–1905
Manufactured by Willets Manufacturing Company (American, 1879–1908)
ca.1901
Manufactured by Willets Manufacturing Company (American, 1879–1908)
ca. 1901
Manufactured by Willets Manufacturing Company (American, 1879–1908)
ca. 1901
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