CHINESE EXPORT GILT AND LACQUER QUATREFOIL TEA CADDY,19th century. Inset with pewter storage well and cover, with four dragonhead-form feet. - 5 1/2 in. high x 8 in. wide. Estimate $600-800
PROVENANCE: Historic Auburn Farm, Thurmont MD. By descent to current owners from Martha Jewitt Orth, wife of George Sheldon Orth, married 1848, Steubenville, Ohio.
Lacquer missing to top edges in three places; hairline cracks to body; interior in good condition with very minor loss to lacquer, feet in good condition.
