This large tea caddy, essentially an English form, shows techniques more commonly associated with Pennsylvania-Dutch pottery made by members of the Moravian religious sect who settled in eastern Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century. These German-speaking potters applied contrasting coats of slip, or liquid clay, over a red clay body to decorate domestic crockery. In sgraffito, the main technique employed here, Joseph Smith scratched out a design of a tree in the slip. His choice of subject appears to have derived from the raised tree motifs that decorated English salt-glaze stoneware tea caddies. Such imported luxury wares would have resonated with the Anglo-American potter, who made this special object from local materials for his daughter, whose name is inscribed.