Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 1754 illustrated a related domed 'tea-chest' pattern for such caddies. These caddies of beautifully figured mahogany are wreathed with black reeds in the George III 'Etruscan' fashion popularised from the late 1760s by the architect Robert Adam (d. 1792) and by the antiquarian interest in Etruscan/Greek vases.