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ANTIQUE BOXES
at the
Sign of the Hygra
2 Middleton Road
London E8 4BL
Tel: 00 44 (0)20 7254 7074
email:
boxes@hygra.com

Antique Boxes in English Society
1760 -1900

by ANTIGONE
Tea Caddies and Tea

Tea Caddies and Tea


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Tunbridge Ware caddies flourished in the middle of the century until the 1870s. They came in all the shapes already mentioned but with very elaborate decoration in mosaic marquetry.

There are caddies with castles, flowers, birds, butterflies, persons, decorated both inside and outside. Sometimes earlier cube designs are also incorporated in the many happy and not so happy combinations.

© 1999 Antigone Clarke and Joseph O'Kelly