A large number of caskets, fitted with matching enamelled copper tea-caddies and sugar box, were made in South Staffordshire and Birmingham between about 1765 and 1785. The tea-caddies and sugar boxes were decorated with either gilt, or bianco sopra bianco scrolls bordering panels of landscapes and sprays of flowers on white, pale blue or pink grounds. The caskets were made not only from papier-mâché, but also from aventurine glass and enamel. They were mounted with incised giltmetal and had velvet-lined interiors.

A very similar papier-mâché casket with capriccio views of Venice and Birmingham pink-ground enamel caddies was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 9 April 1987, lot 9. A blue aventurine glass casket in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum is illustrated in J. Gloag, 'Tea Caskets and Containers', The Connoisseur, London, February 1977, fig. 4, p. 108, and a brown aventurine glass casket with white-ground caddies, painted with bouquets of summer flowers, was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 25 February 1986, lot 25. There is a Battersea enamel casket with capriccio landscpes on a pink ground, containing similar caddies, in the Victoria and Albert Museum (no. 704-1902), illustrated in G. Walkling, Tea Caddies, London, 1988, pl. IV, and a further similar enamel casket was sold by Lord Glenconner, in these Rooms, 11 December 1957, lot 137.