A GEORGE III GREEN-STAINED TORTOISESHELL TEA-CADDY banded overall in ivory, the hinged canted rectangular top centred by a silver panel with monogram B, enclosing an interior with two lidded lead-lined compartments

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

細節

來源

By repute Lord Nelson and Charles Kingsley, purchased at auction in Swaziland, 1972, from estate of the late Dr. Foster

This lot is sold with a letter from Charles Kingsley to a 'Dr. Foster' dated 29 October 1859 and apparently referring to the tea-caddy

拍品專文

A very similar green tortoiseshell tea-caddy of exactly the same dimensions and from the Macquoid collection is illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., 1954, vol. III, p. 341, fig. 8