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Tea Caddy

RUS 118 | Russia, Moscow | 1873

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Artwork Details

Title: Tea Caddy

Date: 1873

Location: Russia, Moscow

Materials: silver-gilt, translucent and opaque champlevé enamel

Dimensions: 17 x 9 x 9 cm

Accession Number: RUS 118

Other Notes:

During the second half of the 19th century the consumption of tea became widespread in Russia. It is appropriate that China, a major source of the commodity, on occasion also provided the subject matter used to decorate tea caddies. In the present instance there can be detected the varied influence of both 18th century chinoiserie and the Chinese pith paper watercolours that were then appearing in volumes from the Treaty ports. Interestingly, there is no significant reference to traditional Chinese enamelwork, which used a different decorative vocabulary and was furthermore executed in the cloisonné technique, as opposed to the champlevé employed on this caddy.

Bibliography:

Haydn Williams, Enamels of the World: 1700-2000 The Khalili Collections, London 2009, cat. 61, p. 108.

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