Antique 18th Century Georgian Mahoghany Paper Scroll Work Tea Caddy Box 1780 Recently Added Qianlong mark & period

Qianlong mark & period

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

After returning to Antwerp

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

Antique 18th Century Georgian Mahoghany Paper Scroll Work Tea Caddy Box 1780 Recently Added Qianlong mark & periodSOLD 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