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Mayfair, London

A GEORGE III SILVER TEA CADDY OF TEACHEST FORM

PARKER & WAKELIN

LONDON, 1771

One side and the hinged lid engraved with a coat-of-arms within a ribbon-tied laurel wreath cartouche, the other three sides similarly decorated with three shaded Chinese characters all over vertical pales and within narrow borders finely engraved with scrolling foliage

Square 3 ¾ in, 9.5 cm, scratch weight: '17 = 0'

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Parker & Wakelin


Parker & Wakelin