Use the below form to search The Bowes Museum Collections:

If you can't find what you're after take a look at our search tips ?

AND OR

Collections > Wood Carving > Tea Caddy

Tea Caddy

Tea caddy with marquetry of several woods and ivory on a carcase of oak and pine. The box is raised on four shallow bracket feet of mahogany and a very narrow plinth of mahogany with boxwood strip at top and bottom. The corners of the box are inset with rounded beadings of ivory, which continue up the short vertical sides of the first stage of the lid and along the upper edges of this stage. The front and sides are cross-banded with diagonally set rosewood; within this frame of Greek key in several woods with ivory flowers set in the corners, surrounds a panel of burr walnut decorated with oriental figures in several woods, the hands and feet in ivory. On the back a burr walnut panel is cross-banded similarly with rosewood, with a boxwood stringing.
Size: Height: 15.5 cm; Width: 26.2 cm; Depth: 15 cm.

Place: England

Object Type: tea caddy

Period: George III

Actual Date: c. 1780

Century: 18th century

Materials: Rosewood, Box Wood, Mahogany, Oak, Ivory

Museum Accession Number: Founders/X.989