Antique Chinese Tea CrateTurn of the century antique wooden Chinese tea crate with original labels measuring about 10 squared. Condition is good with wear and tanning to the labels consistent with age.

Suitable for table service

By all pretty girls you are scarcely endured

wear to the extremities of the spine

the Stonehenge piece makes the viewer aware of how humanity is dwarfed by the sublime power of nature: The scene depicts a violent thunderstorm where the shepherd has been struck dead by lightning

Victorian black and white cartoon satirizing a dishonest spiritualist from an 1860s issue of Punch

Refer to photos for size & condition: Very good with minor wear associated with age

Measures about 14” tall

both as a general motif in decorative arts and as metaphors in morality tales about human behavior

missing its lid & liner

Published in 1701 by G

this punch paper embroidery is dated 1847

It’s unusual in that it employs no imagery traditionally associated with hope: It depicts a blindfolded woman sitting on a globe playing a harp with only one string left intact