Three-piece George III Sterling Silver Tea Caddy Set

Description:

Three-piece George III Sterling Silver Tea Caddy Set, London, 1762-63, Thomas Heming, maker, comprising two tea canisters with sliding lids and a sugar box with hinged lid, each rectangular decorated throughout in chinoiserie style with rocaille scrolls centering the "tea picker" pattern featuring a man picking tea leaves and placing them in a basket, ht. to 5 1/2 in., approx. 35.6 troy oz.

Provenance: The Estate of Hugh Trumbull Adams, to benefit the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Collections Acquisitions Fund.
Estimate $1,200-1,800

Each with varying degree of wear/loss of detail to surface decoration (particularly to sugar box). Lacquered surface.Tea canisters each with small splits to 2/4 central joints of feet, all with minor indentations to feet (one tea canister rocks very slightly),sugar box with possible minor restorations to feet (rough solder, loss to detail on front surface, fairly unobtrusive). Each with rough solder between edges of body and foot (see images).


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