This caddy has octagon-cut corners and serpentined bracket feet in the George II style and is embellished in the French manner with brass-ribbon mouldings and inlaid fillets and plaques. Its ogival-domed lid fitted with a handle and husk-filled spandrels corresponds to that of a tea-caddy engraved on a 1740s trade-card of Landall & Gordon, cabinet-makers of Little Argyle Street (see: C. Gilbert, John Channon, London, 1993, fig. 12). A 'tea chest' ornamented with brass and bearing T. Landall's inscription survives in a private collection (see: ibid., fig. 13). However its form, decoation and harlequin-sprung escutcheon plate surmoutned by Venus's scallop-shell badge relates most closely to a caddy in the possession of R.A. Lee that is thought to have been executed by Frederick Hintz (ibid., fig. 169). Hintz, trading at 'The Porcupine', Newport Street, advertised in 1738 'the sale of tea-tables, tea-chests, tea-boards etc. all curiously (finely), made and inlaid with fine figures of Brass and mother-of-pearl (see: The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1986, p. 434)