Small 19th Century Toleware Tea Caddy

This is a charming little toleware tea caddy. It dates to the second half of the 19th Century, and is designed and painted to simulate an earlier Georgian caddy, in satinwood and rosewood with inset panels of fruit. It is made of tin. The lid is hinged and has been pressed and formed to the shape of a traditional caddy with raised concave moulded sections and a convex oval centre.