Tea chest Tea chest, The rectangular wooden chest is divided into three compartments by means of two wooden sliders. Both the interior and the sliders are covered with blue velvet. It is mounted in a silver holder with a hinged lid, containing the loose wooden lid of the box. The holder rests on four hollowly curved, fluted legs, closed at the top and bottom by profile edges. It has a smooth silver bottom but is cut open on all other sides. The four sides of the box holder each exhibit a field of angular guilloches against a background of railings with rosettes, surrounded by an edge
Tea chest Tea chest, The rectangular wooden chest is divided into three compartments by means of two wooden sliders. Both the interior and the sliders are covered with blue velvet. It is mounted in a silver holder with a hinged lid, containing the loose wooden lid of the box. The holder rests on four hollowly curved, fluted legs, closed at the top and bottom by profile edges. It has a smooth silver bottom but is cut open on all other sides. The four sides of the box holder each exhibit a field of angular guilloches against a background of railings with rosettes, surrounded by an edge of similar, smaller-scale grilles. On the front the decoration is interrupted by the keyhole, which is closed by a movably cast plate in the form of a trophy of music books and instruments, a torch and leaf wreaths and garlands. The new blue velor upholstery is arranged so that the lock is covered on all sides. The four sides of the lid holder are cut away with angular guilloches. The same edge runs around the top of the lid, interrupted at the corners by superimposed cast square plates with rosettes. Inside is a raised field, decorated like the sides of the box holder. Many details are engraved on all sides. The angular, profiled handle on the lid hinges in two round holders resting on square plates, all with profile edges. Along the lower edge of the legs and all edges of the holder, except for the lower edge of the lid, around the raised field, along the edges of the handle and around the plates on which the holders of the handle rest, bead moldings are provided (small parts are missing). Three rectangular busses, ornaments, art, Pieter Adolf Bruné, Amsterdam, 1785, silver (metal), wood (plant material), velvet (fabric weave), engraving, h cm × w cm × d cm
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