LATE 18TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF HENRY CLAY

For similar see Noel Riley, Stones' Pocket Guide to Tea Caddies, 2002,, fig. 104 p. 48; and Sotheby's, The Robert Harman Collection, 12 November 1999, lot 16.
Henry Clay's patent of 1772 listed 'making in paper high varnished panels for ... cabinets, book-cases, screens, chimney pieces, tables, tea-trays and waiters' which marked the start of the great papier-mache industry centered on Birmingham and Wolverhampton.