A GEORGE III SILVER TEA CADDY
A GEORGE III SILVER TEA CADDY
by Charles Aldridge & Henry Green, London 1784, of rectangular form, the hinged cover with an urn finial within a bright cut band of flowerheads and leafy sprigs, the body with further bright-cut bands of flowerheads, leafy sprigs and saltires between dotted and scalloped lines, the sides hung with bright-cut husk swags, one side engraved with an oval cartouche enclosing a crest of a lion sejant erect grasping a flagstaff and banner and the other with a quartered coat of arms suspended from a ribbon bow within a motto scroll inscribed In Hoc Signo Specimen, the interior gilt. 12cm high, 11cm wide, 9cm deep, 13.6 troy ounces
A GEORGE III SILVER TEA CADDY
by Charles Aldridge & Henry Green, London 1784, of rectangular form, the hinged cover with an urn finial within a bright cut band of flowerheads and leafy sprigs, the body with further bright-cut bands of flowerheads, leafy sprigs and saltires between dotted and scalloped lines, the sides hung with bright-cut husk swags, one side engraved with an oval cartouche enclosing a crest of a lion sejant erect grasping a flagstaff and banner and the other with a quartered coat of arms suspended from a ribbon bow within a motto scroll inscribed In Hoc Signo Specimen, the interior gilt. 12cm high, 11cm wide, 9cm deep, 13.6 troy ounces
