Hygra: A continental pearwood tea caddy decorated with cut steel Circa 1820-40

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1760 -1900
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A continental pearwood tea caddy decorated with cut steel 1820-1840.

A continental pearwood tea caddy decorated with cut steel.

Circa 1820-1840.

Featured at figure 367 of our book

It measures inches wide by inches deep and it is inches high:18 cm wide by 12 cm deep by 10 cm high.

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Detail: The cut steel pins are faceted and jewel-like. Cut steel was used in the late 18th Century for jewelry and precious objects. The pins are faceted like precious stones

Detail top: There is a "W" written in the faceted steel pins.
Cut steel work developed in Russia but became very popular in France during the 19th Century for the decoration of Palais Royal boxes.

See: page 245 Antique Boxes, Tea Caddies, and Society -- 1700--1880, ISBN: 0764316885 Antigone Clarke & Joseph O'Kelly, A Schiffer Book for collectors.

For the historical context of this caddy read the relevant part of Antigone's Online Antique Box Book. If you click here you will go there.

We have written a highly illustrated book on Antique Boxes and Tea caddies which is being published by Schiffer Books USA.