A Fine pair of South Staffordshire enamel tea caddies, the oval bodies with moulded cavetto covers, painted with an all-over design of white stellar ornament with red and blue centres, with ormolu escutcheons, handles and hinged mounts, the tin lined interiors with enamel secondary lids, circa 1790 -- 5½in. (14cm.) high, to top of handles.

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A Fine pair of South Staffordshire enamel tea caddies, the oval bodies with moulded cavetto covers, painted with an all-over design of white stellar ornament with red and blue centres, with ormolu escutcheons, handles and hinged mounts, the tin lined interiors with enamel secondary lids, circa 1790 -- 5½in. (14cm.) high, to top of handles.

Lot Essay

An urn shaped cassolette vase similarly decorated with this striking geometric enamel design in the Victoria & Albert Museuem, is illustrated, Susan Benjamin, English Enamel Boxes From the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Macdonald Orbis, page 86.

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