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Tea Caddies For Sale
19th century carved mahogany teapoy stamped Gillows
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Superb quality Gillows regency mahogany teapoy circa 1820. The main body being of sarcophagus form, which opens to 4 mahogany slides on each corner, 1 large tole compartment flanked...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Tea Caddies

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Mahogany

Antique George IV Gonçalo Alves & Amboyna Marquetry Tea Caddy C1825 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is an exquisite antique George IV Gonçalo Alves and amboyna marquetry inlaid tea caddy, circa 1825 in date. It is beautifully decorated with superb marquetry decoration to the ...
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1820s George IV Antique Tea Caddies

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Amboyna

19th Century Chinese Gold Lacquer Tea Caddy
Located in Brea, CA
19th century Chinese gold lacquer tea caddy container from the Qing Dynasty. Unique shape, hard to find.
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19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Tea Caddies

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Lacquer

Regency Mahogany Miniature Sideboard Tea Caddy
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A charming and rare early 19th Century Regency Period mahogany tea caddy, in the form of a miniature pedestal sideboard, having extremely well figured, crossbanded hinged top, over d...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Tea Caddies

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Mahogany

Rich Mahogany Regency Style Tea Caddie with Inlay and Brass Lion Rings
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Sumptuous Regency style mahogany tea caddie having boxwood string inlay on the sides and handsome brass lion rings as well as paw feet. Key included.
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19th Century English Regency Antique Tea Caddies

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Brass

Georgian Sheraton Period Tea Caddy finely Inlaid, English circa 1780
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
A very beautiful, fine quality, inlaid Tea Caddy from the English Georgian, Sheraton Period, Circa 1780. The Tea Caddy is all handmade with very fine quality features; * Beautifully...
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Late 18th Century English George III Antique Tea Caddies

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Sycamore, Hardwood, Walnut, Satinwood, Boxwood

Fine quality antique George III tea caddy
Located in Ipswich, GB
Fine quality antique George III tea caddy, having a quality antique George III satinwood tea caddy with a lift up lid opening to reveal two removable compartments for tea and a glass...
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19th Century Antique Tea Caddies

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Brass

Ceramic Elephant Teapot , hand made in South Africa
Located in North Miami, FL
Elephant Teapot Hand-Painted by Swelihle Khanyeza, Sculpted by Sbusiso Ndaba Love Art Ceramic, South Africa, 2024 Introducing the Elephant Teapot, a stunning ceramic piece that beau...
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21st Century and Contemporary South African Modern Tea Caddies

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Ceramic

Georgian Silver Mounted Satinwood Tea Chest
Located in Northampton, GB
Georgian Tea Chest with Rosewood Cross Banding From our Tea Caddy collection, we are delighted to offer this Georgian Satinwood Tea Chest. The Tea Chest of rectangular form veneered...
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Late 18th Century English George III Antique Tea Caddies

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Silver

Victorian Tunbridge Ware Tea Caddy
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Charming 19th Century Tunbridge Ware Tea Caddy With Attractive Floral Band To Main Body And Parquetry Perspective Cubes To Hinged Lid Enclosing Lidded Interior. Tea was an extrem...
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Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Tea Caddies

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Other

Georgian Tea Caddy Henry Clay 'Attributed'
Located in Northampton, GB
Octagonal Papier-Mache Tea Caddy with Classical Figures Circa 1800 From our Tea Caddy collection, we are thrilled to offer this Henry Clay Octagonal papier-mache Tea Caddy. The Tea caddy decorated to the exterior with a central scene showing seated classical figures and cherubs. The top and bottom with Entwined diaper borders that are repeated on the hinged, silvered-handle top. The intior features a floating lid with a mounted silvered handle. Although unsigned we firmly attribute the Tea Caddy to renowned London maker Henry Clay. The Tea Caddy comes complete with working lock and key Henry Clay was an assistant to one of the pioneers in papier-mache by the name of John Baskerville who started to imitate the highly polished items, that were being imported from Japan, using lacquered...
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Tea Caddies

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Paper

Antique Regency Boulle Tortoiseshell Tea Chest
Located in Northampton, GB
Boulle Style Front From our Tea Caddy collection, we are thrilled to offer this Regency Tortoiseshell Tea Chest. The Tea Chest of sarcophagus shape with a gently tapering body and a...
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Early 19th Century English George IV Antique Tea Caddies

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Brass, Pewter

Great Shape & Color, Antique Tea Caddy inNutwood with Brass Lock and Hinges
Located in Lisse, NL
A very pleasing to the eye, early 1800s triple compartment tea caddy. This marvellous tea caddy is in very good condition and the patinated nutwood has a truly warm, deep and rich p...
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Early 19th Century European Antique Tea Caddies

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Brass

19th Century Oval Tole Tea Caddy
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Nice patina, painted tea caddy
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19th Century Antique Tea Caddies

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Wood, Paint

Wonderful German 800 Silver Tea Caddy
Located in Bronx, NY
This vintage late 19th century German tea caddy is designed with a magnificent detailed repousse' floral motif. Multiple flowing vines & leaves & roses overwhelm the footed box. Ami...
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Late 19th Century German Art Nouveau Antique Tea Caddies

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Silver

1980s Vintage Fitz and Floyd Rain Forest Majolica Monkey Ceramic Teapot
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Fitz and Floyd Rain Forest Monkey Majolica ceramic Teapot. Vintage Majolica Monkey Fitz and Floyd 1980s Rain Forest Teapot. Designed as ...
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Late 20th Century Japanese Victorian Tea Caddies

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Ceramic

Quality antique Regency rosewood tea caddy
Located in Ipswich, GB
Quality antique Regency rosewood tea caddy, having a quality antique Regency tea caddy of rectangular shape with ring handles to the sides, a lift up lid opening to reveal a fitted i...
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Early 19th Century Regency Antique Tea Caddies

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Rosewood

Attractive antique Victorian quality rosewood tea caddy
Located in Ipswich, GB
Attractive antique Victorian quality rosewood tea caddy, having an attractive bombe sarcophagus form quality tea caddy, with a lift up lid opening to reveal a fitted interior with tw...
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Early 19th Century Early Victorian Antique Tea Caddies

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Rosewood

English Regency Rosewood Tea Caddy
Located in Wilson, NC
The interior of the top of this tea caddy has two covered tea boxes and two holes for mixing jars which are missing. The legs terminate in the original brass castors.
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1820s English Regency Antique Tea Caddies

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Brass

Antique 18th-Century Georgian Burr Yew Tea Caddy—Elegant, natural wooden box
Located in Saint Helena, CA
Two hundred years of history, meticulously craftsmanship, rare wood, and natural beauty! This beautiful tea caddy is dated circa 1780, is "of the period" Georgian s...
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Late 18th Century English George III Antique Tea Caddies

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Yew

Tea Chest, Germany First Half of the 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Lidded chest with a curved lid and a concave belly, standing on brass ball feet. The escutcheon is inlayed in bone. Mahogany veneered.
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Early 19th Century German Biedermeier Antique Tea Caddies

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Brass

English Mahogany Box on Stand, Early 20th Century
Located in Stamford, CT
A sweet little box on stand from the Edwardian period. The box, likely originally a tea caddy, with brass corners. The base with turned legs and a single drawer. The box lifts out of...
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Early 20th Century English Edwardian Tea Caddies

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Mahogany

Chawner English Georgian Neoclassical Sterling Silver Tea Caddy, 1788
Located in New York, NY
George III sterling silver tea caddy. Made by Henry Chawner in London in 1788. Oval with straight sides. Cover hinged and domed with beaded and carved wood finial set in leaf mount. ...
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1780s British Neoclassical Antique Tea Caddies

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Sterling Silver

Octagonal Burl Oak Tea Caddy
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine country made English burr oak octagonal tea caddy in richly figured timber, the facetted lid with solid cap, the interior with two lids retaining original turned bone knobs, sta...
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Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Tea Caddies

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Oak, Burl

Neoclassical Antique Sterling Silver Tea Caddy Set from 1797 by Robert Sharp
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1797 by Robert Sharp, this rare and exceptional quality, George III, antique sterling silver tea caddy set, comprises two oval tea caddies and a sugar caddy...
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1790s English Neoclassical Antique Tea Caddies

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Sterling Silver

Georigan Cherry Wood Tea Vessel
Located in Vienna, AT
A wonderful tea vessel made out of cherry wood in Vienna in about 1830-1850. Beautifully decorated by a silver plated application of a house and a landscape (some brassing).
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Mid-19th Century Austrian Antique Tea Caddies

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Silver

Emerald Green Goat Skin Covered Wooden Cylinder Box in the Style of Aldo Tura
Located in Winnetka, IL
This is a beautiful emerald green goat skin cylinder box with a brass pineapple finial on lid and wooden interior in the style of Aldo Tura.
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1950s European Vintage Tea Caddies

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Brass

Georgian Ribbed Bucket Tea Caddy
Located in Northampton, GB
Rare and unusual George III tea caddy in the form of a ribbed bucket. The tea caddy of beautiful shape with a ribbed exterior carved from alternating panels of plain Sycamore and...
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Late 18th Century British George III Antique Tea Caddies

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Cut Steel

Fine Rolled Paper Tea Caddy
Located in Folkestone, GB
A fine quality rolled/scrolled paperwork single compartmemt tea caddy in good originl condition with minor losses. Decorated all-over with applied scrolls of gilt edged and coloured ...
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Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Tea Caddies

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Paper

Scottish Mauchline Ware Tea Caddy attributed to Smiths
Located in Northampton, GB
Scottish Mauchline Ware From our Tea Caddy collection, we are delighted to offer this rare Mauchline Ware Tea Caddy. The Tea Caddy of rectangular form extensively decorated with a repeating pinstripe pattern throughout the entire exterior of the Tea Caddy upon a Sycamore carcass. The decoration features a striped effect with alternating classical scrollwork, linked chain and pin striped vertical line transfers in shades of gold, green and red. A shield-shaped escutcheon finishes the exterior of the Caddy. When opened the Tea Caddy reveals a single Caddy compartment with traces of the original foil lining and the Caddy the original full length wooden Cumnock Hinge. The Tea Caddy dates to the late Georgian Period during the reign of George IV Circa 1830. The Tea Caddy is a rare example of early Mauchline Ware especially because of the Type of decoration used and extremely good condition, a superb addition to any collection. We firmly attribute the Tea Caddy to renowned Scottish Mauchline Ware makers Smiths from the extremely close similarities between this Caddy and a previous one in our archives signed by Smiths. The Tea Caddy comes complete with working lock and tasselled key. Mauchline Ware was the production of Scottish white-wood products, it was mainly manufactured from the 1820s until 1939. The production of souvenir woodware for the tourist market began in the 1790s with the snuff box industry in Ayrshire. By 1820, Mauchline ware was well established, supplying souvenirs from wood grown ‘on the Field of Bannockburn’, ‘on the Abbey Craig’, ‘on the slopes of Stirling Castle’ and made into sewing requisites, egg cups, trinket boxes and many other kinds of souvenirs, transfer printed with a line drawing of the place. The firm Smith’s who regarded as the the leading and most renowned manufacturer of Mauchline War among a few lesser known and shorter lived companies. They ranged from the basic transfer as on small vases to boxes and smaller household accessories...
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Early 19th Century Scottish William IV Antique Tea Caddies

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Sycamore

Rosenthal Serb Bavaria Donatello Porcelain Creamer & Sugar Bowl
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Rosenthal Serb Bavaria Donatello Porcelain Creamer and Sugar Bowl with Gold Trim and Monogram "S" Made in Germany. Vintage. Dimensions Suga...
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1920s German Vintage Tea Caddies

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Ceramic

Brass Mounted Coromandel Wood Tea Caddy with Satinwood Interior
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Brass decorated coromandel wood tea caddy with a satinwood lined lid enclosing a pair of removable satinwood tea boxes with domed hinged lids, each with an engraved brass shield, one...
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Mid-19th Century English Gothic Revival Antique Tea Caddies

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Brass

English Sheffield Silver Plate Covered Round Shape Tea Caddy
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Discover the epitome of refined elegance with our extraordinary English Sheffield silver pate covered round shape tea caddy / biscuit box. This exquisite piece seamlessly blends fu...
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1890s English Art Deco Antique Tea Caddies

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Silver Plate

Oriental Chinese Octagonal Black Lacquered Gilt Painted Covered Box 1940s
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique Oriental Chinese Export Black Lacquered Gilt Painted Covered Box 1940s. Large Asian Chinese black lacquered tea box with nume...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Tea Caddies

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Giltwood, Lacquer

Antique English Regency Mahogany Tea Chest Robert Wright
Located in Northampton, GB
With Twin Caddies & Hand Cut Glass Sugar Bowl From our Tea Caddy collection, we are delighted to offer this rare Regency Cuban Mahogany Tea Chest by Robert Wright. The Tea Chest of ...
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Early 19th Century British Regency Antique Tea Caddies

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Metal, Brass

Mid 19th century Chinese export hand painted tea caddy
Located in Allentown, PA
This is a mid 19th century handpainted Chinese export tea caddy. This tea Caddy stands on four hand carved miniature foo dog sculpted feet. This tea caddy has its original pewter lin...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Tea Caddies

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Wood

Antique English Rosewood Teapoy Table with Complete Interior, Circa 1845-1865.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English Victorian Rosewood Teapoy Table with Complete Interior, Circa 1845-1865.
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Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Tea Caddies

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Rosewood

Victorian Marquetry Tea Caddy
Located in Northampton, GB
Featuring Inlaid Hearts and Diamonds From our Tea Caddy collection we a pleased to offer this unusual Victorian Marquetry Tea Caddy. The Tea Caddy of unusual form with two outer Tea...
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Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Tea Caddies

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Brass

English XVIII Octagonal Mahogany Tea Caddy with Satinwood Inlay and Brass Knob
Located in Santa Monica, CA
English 18th Century Octagonal Mahogany Tea Caddy with Satinwood Inlay and Brass Knob
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18th Century English Antique Tea Caddies

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Brass

Antique English Coopered Barrel Advertising Tea Caddy
Located in Northampton, GB
Advertising Tea Barrel Caddy From our Tea Caddy collection, we are delighted to offer an unusual Advertising Tea Caddy. The Tea Caddy in the form of a coopered barrel complete with two thick brass straps around a beautifully patinated body with a mahogany plinth having a cavetto edge. The lid with a matching cavetto edge having a beautiful star inlay motif surmounted by a turned finial in the shape of an acorn. The front of the caddy is beautifully inlaid in Ebony with the word Tea in a 3d effect. We are confident this Caddy would have been commissioned as an advertising piece for a luxury tea shop in the mid-19th century with tea being such a desirable commodity in higher society. Provenance Sold at Grosvenor House antique fair...
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Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Tea Caddies

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Brass

Rare Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Tea Caddy 322
Located in Hellerup, DK
A vintage sterling silver Georg Jensen tea caddy with floral finial, design #322 by Johan Rohde from 1920. Additional information: Material: St...
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20th Century Art Nouveau Tea Caddies

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Sterling Silver

Tiny Regency Partridgewood Tea Caddy
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A charming and extremely rare Regency period 19th century partridge wood tea caddy, of incredibly small proportions, having elegant pagoda shaped top enclosing lined interior raised on original brass ball feet. This is one of the smallest tea caddies we have ever seen. It also really is very charming indeed. The shape has real elegance and the overall package is just so very rare. Partridge wood is a wood imported from South America towards the end of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Available in particularly small sheets it was almost exclusively used in cross banded, or inlaid decorations or for very small decorative boxes...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Tea Caddies

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Other

Early 19th Century Mahogany Teapoy
Located in Martlesham, GB
Early 19th century mahogany teapoy, the shaped, crossbanded and hinged top opening to reveal two wooden containers with lids, with two compartment spaces ideal ...
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1810s British Georgian Antique Tea Caddies

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Mahogany

Circa 1780 Continental Porcelain Tea Caddy
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Continental tea caddy, c.1780, molded soft paste porcelain. Neoclassical swag decoration, gilt monogram. No cover. Harvey Gunter collection. 3 1/4"w., 1 1/4"d., 5"h. Whitehall Antiq...
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1780s European Neoclassical Antique Tea Caddies

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Porcelain

Antique oblong silver biscuit box
Located in London, GB
Elegant antique silver biscuit box mounted on a flared platform base which rests on four cast scroll-pattern supports. The hinged cover has a slightly raised and hand chased centre p...
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1920s British Art Deco Vintage Tea Caddies

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Sterling Silver

Early 19th Century English George III Tea Caddy with Shell Inlay
Located in Atlanta, GA
Early 19th Century English George III Tea Caddy with Shell Inlay
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19th Century English George III Antique Tea Caddies

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Wood

English Calamander Hinged Tea Caddy with Flanking Brass Floral Handles, C. 1800
Located in Charleston, SC
English Calamander hinged tea caddy with removable two lidded interior bins, centered mixing bowl, flanking brass floral side handles, locking key with tassel, and terminating on the...
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Early 1800s English George III Antique Tea Caddies

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Brass

19th Century Chinese Lacquer Tea Caddy
Located in Brea, CA
19th century Qing Dynasty Chinese export gilt decorated black lacquer tea caddy. Hexagonal shape with floral chased pewter covered caddies deta...
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19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Tea Caddies

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Lacquer

Islamic Kashmir Hand Painted Paper Mache Tea Caddy Storage Box 1950s
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Exquisite beauty of this antique Islamic Kashmiri Papier-Mâché Tea Caddy, a stunning storage box with a lid and copper metal lining. This hand-painted gem features intricate miniatur...
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Mid-20th Century Indian Islamic Tea Caddies

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Copper

19th Century Toleware Grocer’s Shop Tea Tin
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
19th century toleware grocer’s shop tea tin, A beautiful decorative Grocers Tea Canister, it would have been filled with Tea for sale, it has a very attractive style. The lid is...
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Late 19th Century Arts and Crafts Antique Tea Caddies

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Tin

French Turn of the Century Steel and Brass Coffee Bean Dispenser, circa 1900
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Turn of the Century steel and brass coffee bean dispenser from circa 1900. This French Turn of the Century coffee bean dispenser, crafted f...
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Early 20th Century French Tea Caddies

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Brass, Steel

American Mahogany Tea Caddy Signed Tiffany New York. Circa 1880
Located in Charleston, SC
American mahogany tea caddy with original fitted nickel plated divided interior. Signed Tiffany New York . Late 19th Century
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19th Century American Antique Tea Caddies

Pair of Mixed Wood Tea and Coffee Vessels
Located in Greenwich, CT
Good pair of late 19th Century English or Scottish mixed wood treen coffee and tea containers, having compass star inlaid turned lids over turned bodies of ...
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Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Tea Caddies

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Birch, Mahogany

Chinese Hexagonal Cast Brass Tea Caddy
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A Chinese hexagonal cast brass tea caddy, early 20th century. Each rectangular side with a shou symbol surrounded by five stylized bats on blue enamel ...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Tea Caddies

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Brass

Ying Mee & Co., Antique Chinese Lacquer Tea Caddy or Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
Chinese, early 20th century. An antique red lacquer box with gilt decorated chickens, Chinese lettering and other symbols. Marked to box with maker.
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Early 20th Century Chinese Tea Caddies

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Wood, Lacquer

19th Century English Rosewood Teapoy Tea Caddy
Located in San Francisco, CA
An unusual and large William IV rosewood teapoy or tea caddy in beautiful original condition. The glass mixing bowl is missing, England, circa 1830.
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Tea Caddies

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Rosewood

George II period rococo design tea caddy suite made in London 1739 by John Pero
By John Pero
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1739 by John Pero, this stunning suite of George II Period, Antique Sterling Silver Tea Caddies and Sugar Caddy, are in the Rococo taste, featuring flat chase...
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1730s English Rococo Antique Tea Caddies

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Sterling Silver

English 19th Century Parnall & Sons Green Painted Tea Box with Glass Front
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English Parnall & Son green painted metal tea box from the 19th century with gilt painted floral frieze, glass front flat back and maker's mark. This English Parnall & Son green p...
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19th Century English Antique Tea Caddies

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Metal

Vintage, New and Antique Tea Caddies

There are lots of uses for your vintage, new or antique tea caddies, but they can certainly serve their original intended purpose if needed.

When tea first gained popularity during the 1800s, and teatime became commonplace in homes all over England, it was an expensive commodity owing to excessive taxation. (This, of course, inevitably yielded a black market for tea leaves.) Tea drinkers hoarded their precious goods, which began to arrive in London ports from China during the 17th century, under lock and key. In luxury homes, tea leaves were stowed away in a decorative jar or canister called a tea caddy that was fitted with a lock, or, alternatively, the container was kept in a secured chest or storage cabinet.

Tea was thought to be not just a delicious drink but also to have medicinal benefits. The Chinese had been praising the healthy properties of tea, and wealthy Europeans were eager to discover its benefits for themselves during their ritual afternoon tea. The idea of “teatime” wasn’t a social event in upper-class British homes until the 1830s or 1840s. During Queen Victoria’s reign, small baked treats might be served with your beverage, and teakettles and coffeepots were part of tea services that could include teacups, saucers, a milk pot and other accessories.

When tea cultivation was relegated to British colonies such as India, and the British East India Company could no longer hold onto its trade monopoly with China, tea was no longer a ritual confined to the wealthy. Today, antique and vintage tea caddies are collector’s items all over the world.

Tea caddies weren’t unique to Europeans. The earliest pieces originated in China. Surviving hand-painted examples from China or elsewhere in Asia made of porcelain might feature enameled landscapes or other designs. At the Taft Museum of Art, there are striking enameled 18th-century-era tea caddies of copper that were given to the institution in 2014. Wooden tea caddies materialized over time and were seen as sturdier than their ceramic counterparts.

Today, there are all kinds of ways to use a vintage tea caddy if you’re passing on tea. They’re a welcome decorative flourish on the mantel in your living room, for example. A metal tea caddy, lined with a plastic bag, can be used to cultivate an herb garden on your kitchen windowsill. An old wooden tea caddy can help keep your paper clips or pushpins organized on your desk too. If you’re always on the go, a tea tin is good for packing earbuds, hand sanitizer, gum or whatever else that might get easily lost in a roomy crossbody messenger bag or other shoulder bag.

Teatime or not, find antique and vintage mid-century modern tea caddies, tortoiseshell caddies and more on 1stDibs.

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