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Since tea caddies were placed on the table as tea was served, they were often highly decorative.  A great variety of wooden caddies were made between 1780 and 1810 as tea became cheaper and more widely used.  A. Hepplewhite & Co. published designs for both ‘tea caddies’ and ‘tea chests’, which were usually larger, in <i>The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide</i>, 1788 (2nd edition 1789, 3rd Edition 1794). \r\n\r\nThis caddy is decorated with four minute wood carvings of landscapes and trophies behind glass. These carvings may have been imported from the Netherlands as they are probably by the Dutch craftsman Cornelius Bavelaar (1747-1830). He specialized in tiny dioramas very similar to these, usually mounted in glass-fronted wooden frames. His son, also Cornelis Bavelaar (1777-1831), worked in the same style.","physicalDescription":"Octagonal mahogany caddy edged with ebony and inset with wood-carvings of landscapes and trophies of musical instruments behind oval glass panels. The carving in the lid has a landscape scene with a windmill; the panel in the front has a portico with figures and trees; those in the sides are of musical trophies and flags.  There is only one inner compartment.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Bavelaar, Cornelis","id":"A24123"},"association":{"text":"designer and maker","id":"x34662"},"note":"The panels are attribute to Cornelis Bavelaar (1747-1830). This Cornelis had a son, of the same name (1777-1831) and both made dioramas in this technique in Leiden, The Netherlands.  It is possible that this was made by the younger Cornelis. 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Lot 63 shows the same blue-painted sky as on the tea caddy. ","historicalContext":"Tea leaves were expensive, so were usually stored in lockable containers. Early tea containers were referred to as canisters, kept in locked boxes known as tea chests. Smaller wooden boxes with one or two fixed inner compartments for loose tea became popular from about 1780 onwards and by 1800 were generally known as tea caddies. The word 'caddy' is thought to derive from the Malay word for a measure of weight (<i>kati</i>) equivalent to about half a kilogram.","briefDescription":"Octagonal tea caddy of mahogany inset with minutes landscape carvings behind glass panels, early 19th century.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Walkling, Gillian. <u>Tea Caddies, An Illustrated History,</u>. London: Victoria and Albert Museum 1985, Fig. 45. 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