A rare English creamware double tea canister circa 1770

painted, in the manner of David Rhodes, with roses and flowers, inscribed on one end BOHEA TEA, and on the other GREEN TEA, with later replacement silver covers. 3 pieces.

The silver covers are replacements. There is a very minor fine short haircrack extending into the base from a firing fault running vertically beneath the red line where the two canisters meet on one side; another minor fine haircrack issuing from a tiny minor chip to the edge of the foot running upwards to the rose on one side and into the base for about 2 inches - both are very fine and not disfiguring; and a third minor, very fine haircrack curving upwards from one corner of the base minor 1o the center of the iron-red border beneath 'Green Tea'; a minor 1/8-in. chip to the rim edge of one canister.
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