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Oval cylindrical body decorated tea caddy; molded shoulders; circular lid; painted decoration on black ground with oval and round red fruit with yellow leaves; yellow leaf chain border around top of cylinder just below shoulder.
tea caddies (containers)
leaf (plant material)
foliation (pattern)
leaf (metal)
painting (coating)
tin (metal)
fruit
leaf (plant material)
foliation (pattern)
leaf (metal)
Tin
Painted
Fruit
Chain
Leaf
CADDY
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
6.25 x 4.875 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.668
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