TEA SERVICE: Primary border: blue enamel wave, orange wavy line, clusters of three pink dots, red loop chain; secondary border: wavy blue dot with pink and green roses; various size sprigs of flowers all over; larger polychrome enamel flower bunch as central decoration. TEA CADDY: Rectangular with sloping shoulders; primary border on shoulders and on cover, which has berry finial with blue enamel leaves; secondary border as decoration surrounding the large spray of flowers on both sides of caddy.
tea caddies (containers)
enamel paint
painting (coating)
porcelain
Chinese export
Caddy, Food
Caddy, Tea
Caddy, Tea
1956.116A,B
Unknown
China
5 (H) (inches)
Gift of Miss Alice Kent Neale
1956.116AB
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