Antique French Napoleon III Era (Victorian) Double Tea Caddy, Boulle and Stringing, EC Fruits of the Hunt A dark walnut

Antique French Napoleon III Era (Victorian) Double Tea Caddy, Boulle and Stringing, EC Fruits of the Hunt A dark walnutA serpentine front design, boulle worked cartouche, broad brass pencil edging and 2 size brass stringing, not a bit of it lost to the ages. This is a fine French box dating between 150 170 years ago. Likely created with an eye to the English Grand Tour travelers, the French were not tea drinkers, but the English were. We don't see many French tea caddies at all, frankly. But this one in particular has survived as a treasured tea chest, and even has

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