Boxes / Caddys, Gift Ideas, Miscellaneous >> Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy

A Mid 19th Century Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy, with a pagoda shaped lid, inset with a vacant cartouche, the main body with panels of tortoiseshell veneer, flanked at each corner by free standing circular columns.  The caddy on four ivory bone fet and the interior facings likewise in ivory/bone veneers.

Complete with key, good lock and hinges.

Height 6"  Width 6 1/2"  Depth 4 1/4"

Date c 1840