Sugar Box or Tea Caddy

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