- Titles Tea Caddy Set (Descriptive)@Tea Caddy Set (Pair of Tea Canisters, Sugar, Fitted Caddy Box) (Alternate)
- Artist Samuel Taylor, England, about 1728 - after 1773; active 1744 - after 1773
- Medium rosewood, brass and velvet, and silver
- Dimensions .1 Box 6 3/8 × 13 1/4 × 5 5/8 in. (16.2 × 33.7 × 14.3 cm) .2-.3 Canisters 5 1/2 × 3 3/8 in. Diam. (14 × 8.6 cm) .4 Sugar 6 × 4 1/4 in. Diam. (15.2 × 10.8 cm)
- Credit Line Eugenia Woodward Hitt Collection, 1991.431.1-.4a-b
- Work Type tea caddy set
- Classification Containers
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks .1 Box: none .2-.3 Canisters on the underside: lion passant; leopard’s head crowned; date letter B for 1757/58; maker’s mark ST in heart .4 Sugar on the underside: lion passant; leopard’s head crowned; date letter E [see worksheet] for 1760/61; maker’s mark ST in heart, plus miscellaneous scratch marks
- Inscription The box set with a brass plaque on the lid inscribed: from Princess Elizabeth 1814
- Provenance Dealer Collingwood of Conduit Street, London, England; purchased by Eugenia Woodward Hitt (1905-1990), New York, New York; by bequest to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1991