Tea box
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood and metal.
Measurements
225 x 270 x 195 mm
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1331941
Summary
Tea box, thin wood, with lid and two thin metal handles on sides. Painted yellow with green and red flowers and birds in black and blue outlined cartouches on all sides and top. Parts of locking mechanism on front. Decoration of flowers and leaves on orange background with white borders. Paper stuck inside lid. Previously noted as containing a number of paints and coloured pencils but these are no longer present.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.