Product Details

This is a small milk-churn shaped storage canister in glazed white ironstone/porcelain, printed on the front with the word "TEA" in cobalt blue block letters. Pieces like this were produced by English pottery firms in Staffordshire and the surrounding districts for kitchen dry-goods storage, and were typically sold as part of a graduated set of lidded canisters (tea, coffee, sugar, flour); this example is unmarked, so the specific pottery cannot be confirmed. The flared collar, heavy body and simple blue transfer lettering are consistent with utilitarian kitchen ware made from roughly the 1920s through the mid-20th century, with the original lid now missing.