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1800-1830
GUSN-11323
The body has a deep "U" shaped front, with a flat back and hinged slant cover and scrolled handle. It is all painted in red and decorated with gold and black striping and gold foliate devices over an arched bannerette with foliate ends inscribed "Ceylon" in black. And a gold and black edged octagonal reserve below.
tea caddies (containers)
painting (coating)
tin (metal)
floral patterns
Tin
Painted
Floral
BOX, TEA
Printed on the front is: Ceylon .
Floral
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
15 x 9 x 11 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1670
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