19th Century Chinese Export Lacquer Tea Caddy

19th Century Chinese Export Lacquer Tea CaddyAn exquisite Chinese export black lacquer tea caddy, finely decorated throughout with Oriental scenes, dragons and exotic ornaments. Qing dynasty, early 19th century. Why we like it With all its exquisite decoration, this box is amazingly well preserved and complete with its original, finely chased paktong containers for two different types of tea for blending at home. Such luxurious items were popular in England during the height of fashion for

A characteristic of volute-krater handles is the fine articulation of the volute itself and of the lower terminals where they rested on the shoulder of the vase

Height: 32 inches / 83 cm

with deep horseshoe scrolled back

Georges Jacob (1739-1814)

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These fine hall chairs have a particularly elegant and sophisticated scrolled cartouche design of the backs

The serpentine toprails centered by acanthus husks

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the likes of Gillows of Lancaster and London and etc

A charming object to decorate a coffee table or a console

Italy and Asia Minor of 1787-1795 which had colossal impact on his taste

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