Lot 61 | Period Oak
Country Furniture and Effects Ft Private Treen Collections | Wilkinsons Auctioneers Doncaster

Lot 61

A Fine Pair of 18th Century Pear Wood Tea Caddies with residual lacquer work, of rich colour and patination. The elegant ovoid jars having snuggly fitting domed covers lifting off to reveal recessed inner lids; one of the outer covers broken and re-stuck; the damage concealed by the carving of a branched tree. The caddies modelled in the form of Oriental ginger jars; a style copied from the 17th century by English silversmiths and then wood turners and decorated with chinoiserie lacquers (see Pinto p 293 and plate 315D), 5¼” (13.5 cm) in height.

Estimated Price: £400 -£600

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A Fine Pair of 18th Century Pear Wood Tea Caddies with residual lacquer work, of rich colour and patination. The elegant ovoid jars having snuggly fitting domed covers lifting off to reveal recessed inner lids; one of the outer covers broken and re-stuck; the damage concealed by the carving of a branched tree. The caddies modelled in the form of Oriental ginger jars; a style copied from the 17th century by English silversmiths and then wood turners and decorated with chinoiserie lacquers (see Pinto p 293 and plate 315D), 5¼” (13.5 cm) in height.