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Description:
Ref: 895TC   http://hygra.com/box/895TC 
Antique Chinese export lacquer tea chest with gold decoration depicting tea cultivation and trading scenes painted with a robustness of line and an attention to minutiae and the use of the bright gold contrasted against the black expanses. The caddy opens to a single compartment with two lidded pewter tea canisters with supplementary inner lids. 

This particular box is painted exceptionally well, with a robustness of line, with attention to minutiae, and with skillful use of bright gold contrasted against black expanses. 

Origin: Canton, China;  Circa: 1830; Materials: Gold decorated lacquer on wood; pewter liners.

Size: 28.5 cm wide by 21 cm by 16 cm:  11.2 inches wide by  8.3  inches by  6.3 inches.

Condition: good overall; working lock and key; see images. As each person has different criteria and antiques by their very nature have wear  please enlarge the images and ask for extra information as needed. 

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