A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL SHAPED RECTANGULAR TEA-CADDY AND COVER painted on either side in iron-red, gilt and en grisaille with an elaborate coat-of-arms surrounded by fronds and surmounted by a crest, all beneath a band of shell-and-scroll, the shallow domed cover, decorated in famille rose enamels, surmounted by a Buddhistic-lion finial (cover restored), circa 1755

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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL SHAPED RECTANGULAR TEA-CADDY AND COVER painted on either side in iron-red, gilt and en grisaille with an elaborate coat-of-arms surrounded by fronds and surmounted by a crest, all beneath a band of shell-and-scroll, the shallow domed cover, decorated in famille rose enamels, surmounted by a Buddhistic-lion finial (cover restored), circa 1755
12.3cm. high

Provenance

Cecil H. Bullivant, sold in London, 22 March 1988, lot 219

Lot Essay

The arms are those of May. Cf. D. S. Howard, op. cit., p. 370 for another tea-caddy with the same arms

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