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Description:
Ref: 883TC  http://hygra.com/box/883TC 

18th C. inlaid two compartment mahogany  tea caddy with supplementary lids inside. The style is inspired by Chippendale's drawings in his Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director 1754 and has rounded caddy-moldings to each edge. It stands on bracket feet. 

Origin: ;  Circa: 1770; Materials: mahogany and inlays in rosewood and boxwood.

Size: 19.8 cm wide by 13.6 cm by 14.8 cm:  7.8 inches wide by 5.4  inches by 5.8  inches.

Condition: good overall with marks of age; working lock and key; see images

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The mahogany has faded and is inlaid to the sides front and top.

The top is set in by a cavetto molding. Each side is framed by rounded caddy molding.

The architectural grammar continues to the back.
It unlike the sides and top has not been inlaid. The richness of the mahogany figure makes up for that.

Compass point inlay in boxwood and rosewood to the side.

The front is inlaid with a stylized patera inlay framed with a cross-banding  of kingwood.

The patera motif in its various forms was an abstraction of a shallow dish used in the classical world for offering libations.

Inside the caddy there are two compartments for tea. There are two supplementary lids with turned maple pulls. At this date the lids sit directly on the tea and do not have supports.  

There are traces of the original leading on the inside.

Top: compass points in rosewood of various colors and boxwood.

The underside: the caddy stands on bracket feet.

Detail of the inlay to the top depicting compass points.

Detail of the lock and the shaped inlaid brass escutcheon.