A GEORGE III CORK TEAPOY, the upper section in the form of a octagonal gothic rotunda, with hinged top enclosing a two-tier metal-lined interior of containers, each side of the rotunda with a traceried window wall on a rusticated background flanked by fluted columns, the front with a door below an oriel window and a sliding lockplate cover marked TU DOCES, the base with gadrooned top edge centred on each face by a palmette, on a channelled quadripartite support and a cluster column shaft with concave-sided canted square platform base and scroll feet headed by palmettes

細節
A GEORGE III CORK TEAPOY, the upper section in the form of a octagonal gothic rotunda, with hinged top enclosing a two-tier metal-lined interior of containers, each side of the rotunda with a traceried window wall on a rusticated background flanked by fluted columns, the front with a door below an oriel window and a sliding lockplate cover marked TU DOCES, the base with gadrooned top edge centred on each face by a palmette, on a channelled quadripartite support and a cluster column shaft with concave-sided canted square platform base and scroll feet headed by palmettes
17½in. (44cm.) wide, overall; 42in. (107cm.) high
來源
Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 5 February 1987, lot 63