A George III Etruscan style black japanned oval tea caddy, a...

A George III Etruscan style black japanned oval tea caddy, attributed to Henry Clay, the hinged cover with white metal hoop handle, ribbon and foliate border, the body painted with a depiction of Nike, Hera and Aphrodite (this relating to a plate [89] after William Hamilton, 1730-1803) within borders of palmettes, shaped white metal escutcheon, 17cm high, 16.5cm wide, 10cm deep Literature- Henry Clay of Birmingham patented 'new improved paper-ware' in 1772. His patent specification which lasted until 1802 was: "Making, in Paper, High Varnished Pannels (sic) or Roofs for Coaches, and all Sorts of Wheel Carriages, and Sedan Chairs, Pannels (sic) for Rooms, Doors, and Cabbins (sic] of Ships, Cabinets, Bookcases, Screens, Chimney Pieces, Tables, Teatrays, and Waiters." This process involved "pasting several papers upon boards... [which are] put in a stove sufficiently hot to deprive them of their flexibility, and at the same time are rubbed over or dipped in oil or varnish, which so immediately drenches into them as to secure them from damps... they are capable of being sawed into different forms, and planed as wood.... then coated with colour and oils sufficient to make the surface even, and then japanned and high varnished." A corner cupboard attributed to Clay and decorated in the fashionable Etruscan style was sold at Sotheby's, Shrubland Park, 19-21 September 2006 Lot 54, now in the collection of The V&A Museum. Clay is known to have adopted the Etruscan-style decoration seen on Shrubland cabinet and indeed a visitor to his workshop in Covent Garden in 1775 reported that he made boxes, tea-caddies, panels for coaches and sedan-chairs, coffee trays, and '... all kinds of other vessels, black with orange figures in the style of Etruscan vases' (see Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's 'Visits to England as described in his Letters and Diaries', transl. and annot. by M. L. Mare and W. H. Quarrell, 1938).The most celebrated 'Etruscan' dressing room is the State Bedroom at Osterley Park, designed by the architect Robert Adam. A table by Clay was among the contents of the Etruscan Dressing Room at Osterley listed in an inventory of 1782, described as 'A pembroke table richly Japanned by Clay' (see Maurice Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, 1982, p. 84, cat.no.J/5, illus.).

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