Toleware tea caddy, six-sided with slightly rounded shoulders, narrow neck. Red and gold chinoiserie motif.
caddies
tinware
painting (coating)
tin (metal)
Caddy
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Unknown
5 1/4 (H), 3 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.1714
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