A Pratt Ware tea canister, circa 1790, with macaroni figures in blue and yellow painted relief. On one side is a gentleman in an exaggeratedly high wig with his servant beside him. On the other side a similarly caricatured lady and her servant. The figures are molded in full relief. The center panels of the sides of the tea canister are painted with sprays of flowers in blue. There are variations in the dressing of the lady's wig, both in the arrangement of the curls and in the feathers that crown her head. In one she wears a simple Prince of Wales' feather arrangement and in the other there are two separate gro of feathers. It stands 7" high to the top of the finial. It is in very good condition with some scattered chips to the glaze as seen in the pictures. A version of this tea canister can be seen in the Huntly House Museum, Edinburgh where it is attributed to Gordon's Bankfoot Pottery at Prestonpans in colors of ochre and blue. There is also an example in the Victoria and Albert Museum with an impressed mark for Leeds Pottery. The canister is also pictured with the identical figures front and back, though painted different colors, on page 232 of "Pratt Ware, English and Scottish Relief Decorated & Underglaze Colored Earthenware, 1780-1840", by John & Griselda Lewis, Antique Collector's Club Publishers.