Live Auction 6853Christie's Interiors
A GEORGE IV HEXAGONAL TEA CADDY
Lot 97

A GEORGE IV HEXAGONAL TEA CADDY

BY LUND OF CORNHILL, CIRCA 1825

Closed2 October 2012

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GBP 3,750

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A GEORGE IV HEXAGONAL TEA CADDY
BY LUND OF CORNHILL, CIRCA 1825
The ivory lining inscribed 'LUND MAKER 57 CORNHILL LONDON', with ivory foot rim and bone finial and catch operation
5¼ in. (13.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

See Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert, editors Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, page 561.

Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, pp.309-310. fig.581.

Thomas Lund (fl. 1819-1839) listed himself as 'cutler, manufacturer of portable desks, pens and quills, importer of filtering stones.'