AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY FRUITWOOD TEA CADDY MODELLED AS AN APPLEof naturalistic polished form with a stalk handle and oval iron escutcheon, with traces of red staining, the interior void but with traces of foil lining,12cm highThought for many years to originate in Georgian England, these naturalistic tea caddies modelled as apples and pears are now thought to have been produced in Germany or the Netherlands during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.