Sugar Box or Tea Caddy
1718-1719
Artists
Description
Of cast oblong form with canted corners and shaped outline, on cast stepped spreading foot of conforming outline; the stepped hinged domed cover with octagonal ribbed double-baluster finial, the front engraved, probably in the nineteenth century, with crest.
Dimensions
12.4 × 11.1 × 8.5 cm (4 7/8 × 4 3/8 × 3 3/8 in.) 509 g
Provenance
Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949
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