The tea caddy with H. J. Joel, Christie’s, 15 May 1978
Plate CLIX of the third edition of Thomas Chippendale’s The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, 1762
A GEORGE II SILVER MOUNTED MAHOGANY TEA CADDY , English, circa 1755
Width: 12¼ in; 31 cm
Depth: 7 in; 18 cm
Further images
Note: The caddy retains the original silver mounts and the original velvet lined lid interior finished with fine silver braid. It would originally have contained tea canisters made of either wood or silver; the interior is now fitted with a removable cedarwood tray of later date.
Provenance
H. J. Joel, Childwick Bury, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England;
Private collection, Channel Islands.
Literature
Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker’s Director, 1754, pl. CXXIX.
Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker’s Director, 3rd edn, 1762, pl. CLIX.
Gillian Walkling, Tea Caddies, An Illustrated History, 1985, figs 34–5.
Illustrated:
Christie’s, ‘Childwick Bury, St. Albans, Hertfordshire’, Part 1, 15 May 1978, p. 50, lot 60.
Christie’s, Review of the Season, 1978, p. 274.
