Rare Bayreuth tea caddy, so-called "brown ware". Red ceramic with dark brown glaze. Baluster-shaped body with short, cylindrical neck. Overlapping, round, flattened lid. The wall and lid decorated with so-called chinoiseries, scenic depictions of Chinese people with fans or umbrellas, servants in front of dignitaries or Chinese people fetching water in a stylised Asian landscape. Revolving, lancet-like ornamental border. Fine, partly etched silver painting. H. 10.5 cm. Following the Böttger stoneware of the Meissen manufactory, faience with high-quality gold and silver painting was produced in Bayreuth by the main masters Adam Clemens Wanderer and Johann Andreas Fichthorn on brown glaze after the privatisation of the manufactory in 1728. One of the earliest objects from 1724 is in the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt. Cf. cat. Kunstsammlung Weimar im Schloss Belvedere, fig. 30; Jedding, p. II/11, no. 221ff. A rare darkbrown glazed ceramic tea box with Chinoiserie in silver, partly etched painting. Bayreuth. Circa 1735.