Antique 18th Century Georgian Mahoghany Paper Scroll Work Tea Caddy Box 1780 Recently Added the frame being of easel

the frame being of easel form and having a crest with two birds astride a flowering urn

The vase of baluster-shaped form and having a neck decorated with cloud forms and a collar of dark iron oxide below

Paper filigree work was fashionable during the last part of the eighteenth century through to the early part of the nineteenth century

A finely painted river scene with trees and mountainous landscape behind

Both the top and base having bands of fine foliate and Arabesque engraving

Antique 18th Century Georgian Mahoghany Paper Scroll Work Tea Caddy Box 1780 Recently Added the frame being of easelSOLD A good antique Georgian scrollwork tea caddy, circa 1780. The caddy of hexagonal shape, the front, back & cover with overall decoration of paper scrolls in stylized floral & foliate motifs. The caddy having a hinged lid with a turned brass hinged finial pull, the top having chevron shaped inlay, the interior lid also decorated with floral design paper scrollwork & a turned ivory finial pull. Enclosed are twin compartments for storing tea with the