tea caddy
Summary
Tea caddy casket made of walnut and inlaid with silver fillets and mother-of-pearl with walnut ring handles and applied beaded moulding. With brass hinges and lock and red baize on the base. Inside are two rectangular walnut caddies with hinged lids inlaid with silver and mother-of-pearl and lined inside with tin foil. There is a circular aperture in the centre for a pottery sugar bowl.
Object Name
tea caddy
Date Created
c 1840
accession number
1918.1131
Collection Group
Place of creation
England
Medium
Credit
Transferred from the Horsfall Museum Collection, 1918
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