A REGENCY TORTOISESHELL TEA-CADDY

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A REGENCY TORTOISESHELL TEA-CADDY
The hinged bowed and stepped lid centred by a shaped white-metal mount, to the reverse with a red velvet and ivory interior and enclosing two lidded zinc-lined compartments, the body with spreading base and on boxwood bun feet
9 in. (23 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

There is a very similar tortoiseshell tea-caddy in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, dating from the early 19th Century and illustrated in G. Walkling, Tea Caddies, London, 1988, fig. 60 (inv. no. W.39-1919).
A related tortoiseshell tea-caddy was sold anonymously, Sotheby's New York, 16 October 1993, lot 257.

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