Antique French Boulle-work Tea Caddy
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Directory: Antiques: Furnishings: Accessories: Boxes: Pre 1900: Item # 1485885
Directory: Antiques: Furnishings: Accessories: Boxes: Pre 1900: Item # 1485885
Please refer to our stock # RMT-637 when inquiring.
$7,250
French Boulle Style Tea Caddy, rectangular with cut-corners and slightly domed lid with all sides and two interior lids extensively inlaid with engraved brass and red and black colored lacquer simulating tortoise-shell in the 17th century manner. Circa 1850.
Provenance: The Cockrell Collection. (Key). (See our #555 for a related example with blue lacquer ground.) See Clark & O’Kelly, p. 109-10 for related boxes. Height, 4.5”; Length, 8.75”; Depth, 4.5.”
Exhibited: “A Celebration of the Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party” at Doyles, Boston 2024
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