Tea casket (part of a set)
Unknown Artist
Containing two canisters for tea (green and black) and a larger one for sugar, this chest could be locked to secure its valuable contents; both tea and sugar were expensive commodities during the eighteenth century. The polychrome pastoral scenes and Italianate landscapes, combined with Rococo-style gilding against a pink ground, create an opulent effect.
Credit: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964
c. 1770
White enamel on copper painted in polychrome enamels
11.4 x 24.1 x 11.1 cm
64.101.834
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