8″ Colonial Style Wood Tea Caddy, Early American Decor

Description

Our antique reproduction Colonial tea caddy is excellent Early American decor and ideal for storing your favorite tea leaves, tea bags, and sachets. Crafted to replicate traditional 18th and 19th-century tea chests, this beautiful piece is perfect period decor for use at home, in a tea room, or for stage or reenactment decor. Made from rich teak wood with careful attention to historical detail, this tea caddy features a hinged lid, two lidded compartments, brass plate lining, and antiqued brass decorative accents.

• Caddy dimensions: 8″ x 4-3/4″ x 5-1/2″
• Compartment dimensions: 3-3/4″ x 3-1/4″ x 2-1/4.
• Each compartment holds approximately 4 oz. of loose tea.
• Boxes are handmade and no two are alike, adding to their uniqueness. Expect differences in wood grain and coloring.

Tea in England in the 1700s was an expensive commodity. To keep it safe, people would store it in a lockable Tea Chest or Tea Box, which eventually became known as a Tea Caddy (the word caddy is derived from the Malay “kati”, a unit of weight by which tea was sold). As tea was too expensive to risk leaving in the presence of servants, the caddy would be kept in the drawing room. Subsequently, the Tea Caddy became an important & fashionable accessory for the home.