Painted in blue with Root pattern (BFS I.D.27).
Height: 6.8cm
Mark: Crescent mark to base
Condition: Very good
Simon Spero in his catalogue of The Simpson Collection of Eighteenth Century English Blue and White Miniature Porcelain, illustrates a similar tea canister, minus cover, and describes such canisters as extremely scarce and that the shape was derived directly from a Dutch miniature silver original.
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