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Pair of Tea or Sugar Caddies
From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Each caddy (a,b and c,d) formed of upright, rectangular body with repousse decoration of tea-picking figures in scrolled cartouche, with lion's head above and shell below, on front and back. On sides, scene of tiered building and foliage in scrolled cartouche. Each caddy with sliding cover, relief-cast, with flower knob.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePair of Tea or Sugar Caddies. 1752. William Cripps, English, 1715 – 1766. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde. CC0.
