England | 02898-M00002 |
A Late 18th Century English Sable Tortoiseshell Decagonal Tea Caddy, accented with pewter stringing and bone banding, the top accented with a shaped sterling handle and the front with a pique sterling ovoid medallion fitted with two interior lidded compartments, fully foiled and designed to raise and lower simultaneously with the tea level and with one compartment for green tea and the other for black, the whole raised on a bone veneered plinth
Height: 6"; Width: 6"; Depth: 3 1/2"