Tea Caddy with Cover

Provenance

With Sarah Potter Conover (died 1976), New York, by Mar. 1947; sold to Frederick Standish Colburn (1878–1957), Evanston, IL, Mar. 1947; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1958.

Tea Caddy with Cover

Chinese export porcelain

c. 1750

Accession Number

7855

Medium

Hard-paste porcelain with enamel and gilding

Dimensions

12.4 × 6.8 × 5.7 cm (4 7/8 × 2 11/16 × 2 1/4 in.)

Classification

tea service

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Bequest of Frederick S. Colburn