tea jar

Upright octagonal tea canister with canted corners and short cylindrical neck. Painted in blue on a pale bluish glaze with bianco-sopra-bianco decoration. On front and back: a man in traditional Chinese clothing with a stick under a willow tree in a fenced garden; A man in traditional Chinese clothing with parasol in a garden; on ends: floral sprays; on canted corners: bianco-sopra-bianco with central pinecone between 5-trefoil-petalled flower and many-petalled daisy. Inscribed around neck: ' ANN SCOTT 1763 '.