A DUTCH DELFT CIRCULAR TEA CADDY, A DELFT TOBACCO JAR AND COVER, AND A DELFT PIPE-SMOKER’S BRAZIER, 18TH CENTURY |

the first painted with vignettes of a lady taking tea and a gentleman smoking a pipe, a later white metal cover, 14.5cm., 5¾in. high; the cylindrical tobacco jar and cover painted with vignettes of a maid and cow seated at a shoreside, the reverse with shipping and estuary, 12.7cm., 5in. high; the pan shaped circular brazier painted to the interior with a pipe smoker below a band of fruiting vines, the domed foot painted with figures preparing tobacco leaves, blue D/12 mark

The teacaddy has minor glaze chipping to rim, shoulder and footrim, later metal cover. The jar and cover have minor chipping to rim, footrim of jar, the edge and the flange of the cover. The brazier has minute chipping to the rim of the pan and the footrim but overall in good order.
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