Carlock, Marty, "A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston," Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1988.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1996.
Summary:
The entrance to the Salada Tea Company's first U. S. headquarters is adorned with a bronze inner doorframe and a marble outer doorframe containing reliefs illustrating the cultivation of tea in Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka).
The bronze inner doorframe is divided vertically into five panels on each side. On the right side, the top panel depicts male figures harvesting tea leaves; the second panel down depicts male figures around a table sorting tea leaves; the next panel depicts male figures drying tea leaves in boxes; the next panel depicts male figures carrying boxes of tea on their heads; and the bottom panel depicts elephants transporting boxes of tea. On the left side, the upper panels also depict male figures harvesting and processing tea leaves, but the bottom panel depicts the tea being loaded onto ships. The panels of the inner doorframe are flanked by two vertical rows of small figures in high relief.
The marble outer doorframe consists of two marble columns each containing a full-length figure of a woman in high relief. The capital at the top of each column contains a relief of three elephants. A narrow band across the top of the marble doorframe contains a relief depicting several elephants facing in different directions. Above the elephants is a large seated female figure with a seated child by her proper left foot and a standing child by her proper right foot.