1959.71

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ID Number

1959.71

Category

T&E For Materials

Sub-category

food processing T&E

Item Name

caddy

Materials

METAL, TIN

Measurements

overall: 7 3/4 in

Description

Cylindrical; round cap; toleware; yellow band around bottom and top of cylinder; traces of gold

History

Containers such as this one (which was a tea caddy) were useful yet ugly items. The idea of ornamenting them occurred in the 18th century. They first gave the article several coats of dark brown asphaltum varnish and then embellished the surface by painting on bright colours. To keep calling the product anything so common as tin, the elegant used the French word tole - which meant the same thing. Tole "took on" in the colonies in the latter half of the 18th century and remained popular well into the nineteenth, acquiring along the way a cheaper poor relation decorated with stencils.

Collection Name

Museum Windsor

Subject (Fre)

Y

Subjects

French Canadians / Canadiens-français subject

Manufacturing subject