Tea Canister, 1769, Made in Bucks County, Wrightstown, Pennsylvania, United States, American, Earthenware; Redware, H. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm), Ceramics, Joseph Smith , active 1760s, This earthenware tea canister is one of the earliest known dated examples of American pottery. Although decorated in the Pennsylvanian German decorative technique of sgraffito, it displays the potter's attempt at emulating the fashionable English, salt-glazed, stoneware tea caddies of the 1740s and 1750s
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