Exceptional English Colonial Traveling Box in solid calamander wood; having rectangular top opening to an interior fitted with a hinged lid and silver mounts and a swing out side pen & ink drawer. Circa 1835. (on later stand)
Exceptional English Regency Tambour Lap Desk in Mahogany, having a single drawer that when opened, reveals a fitted interior and hinged, tooled leather writing surface. Circa 1800-1830.
Rare Chinese Export Roll Top Lap Desk, Asian Hardwoods
with ebony and brass mounts having single lower drawer that when opened reveals a fitted interior, sloped writing surface and "pop-up" storage compartment with tambour doors.
Circa 1830.
*See Crossman, The ChinaTrade,
color plate 96 (page 248) for
another example. ...click for details
Exceptional English Victorian dome top tea caddy in burled walnut with engraved brass strapwork and carrying handles, opening to a fitted interior with two removable canisters and original crystal sugar bowl (chip to foot). Circa 1845.
Exceptional antique English coffer in cormandel wood decorated with engraved brass straps and three onyx mounts; the pointed arched lid opening to a fabric lined interior. Circa 1860-1880.
Exceptional antique English burled walnut tea chest with engraved brass mounts having a hinged, domed lid opening to a fitted interior with two lidded, removable caddies and original crystal sugar bowl.
Fine Anglo-Indian carved ebony work box with overall foliate and geometric designs, the rectangular lid opening to a removable tray fitted with compartments edged with ivory cut-outs and raised on ivory turned feet. Nagina, c. 1870-90.
For other examples in the Victoria and Albert Museum see “Furniture from British India and Ceylon” by Amin Jaffer, pp. 264-66. ...click for details
Fine large pair of antique English tole tea bins with hinged wood lids and gilt painted decoration.These would have been shop fixtures for an establishment selling teas and the painted numbers would have been for different teas. Circa 1840-50.
Exceptional Antique English lap desk in rosewood, having brass bound top opening to an interior fitted with writing slope, pen and ink wells, secret drawers and an unusual “pop-up” section with four small drawers. Circa 1790-1820, on later stand.
Provenance: the Glass-Glen Burnie Museum, Winchester, VA
Fine English Regency sarcophagus form tea caddy in satinwood, banded with rosewood, having shaped rectangular lid opening to a fitted interior with two removable caddies. The wooden bun feet are not original. Circa 1800.
Length: 12”
Width: 6”
Height: 7”
