Chinese designs came to England and her colonies with the tea trade. In the 1760's Virginia's governor ordered "bamboo chairs" for this Williamsburg "palace". Williamsburg cabinetmaker Edmund Dickinson owned a copy of Chippendales Director, the most fashionable furniture pattern book of the 1750's and 1760's. Inspired by these bamboo chairs, this porcelain tea jar celebrates Chippendale in bright meadow green-on-cream porcelain. The jar measures 16"H x 7.5"W x 7.5"D.

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