A Böttger red-stonware tea caddy circa 1715

of hexagonal baluster form, each panel moulded in relief with branches of flowers and leaves, alternating with one branch with a bird perched on it and a second one above; the other one with a bird flying in the air, the edges of foot, shoulders and six ribs decorated with Kerbschnitt (small chip to one edge of footrim)

small chip to one edge of footrim (c. 0.5cm. x 0.3cm.)
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The form and decoration of this tea caddy are taken from a Chinese Yixing example. For a Böttger red-stonware example similar in form and decoration (and with cover), see  Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, p.28/29 pl. 7. and 8 and G. Bott (ed.), Böttgersteinzeug und frühes Meissener Porzellan, Germanisches National Museum Nürnberg, p. 52, pl. 34.
There are also larger examples of this model known (height c. 12cm.) with a related but slightly different decoration. See W. Neuwirth, Böttgersteinzeug, Yixing und andere rote Ware, pl. 1 and 2.