This is part of a group of wine-coolers of similar form and with mounts which vary in certain details. A pair possibly supplied by Samuel Norman to Sir Lawrence Dundas for Aske Hall is illustrated in A. Coleridge, 'Sir Lawrence Dundas and Chippendale', Apollo, September 1967, p. 194, fig. 8. Another pair from the Untermyer collection is illustrated in Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with Some Furniture of Other Countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1958, p. 28, fig. 47. One with more elaborately chased bands is illustrated in P. Macquoid & R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1954, vol. III, p. 373, fig. 5. Another was included in Christie's house sale catalogue for H. J. Joel, Esq., Childwick Bury, 15 May 1978, lot 91, but was withdrawn from the sale. An almost identical one to the present example was bought from The Hochschild Collection, sold Sotheby's London, 1 December 1978, lot 160 which was almost certainly supplied to Robert, 4th Earl of Holdernesse (d. 1778), for Hornby Castle, Yorkshire. It is now in The Gerstenfeld Collection (E. Lennox-Boyd, ed., Masterpieces of English Furniture: The Gerstenfeld Collection, London, 1998, p. 225, cat. no. 66). Another was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 23 June 1983, lot 52. An identical cooler was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 8 July 1994, lot 78. Another similar was sold anonymously, Bonhams London, 21 April 1994, lot 66. A pair of stools with bases of the Aske Untermyer model (possibly adapted from wine-coolers) is in the Duke of Argyll's collection at Inveraray Castle (A. Coleridge, 'English Furniture in the Duke of Argyll's collection at Inveraray Castle', Connoisseur, March 1968, p. 156, fig. 8).

Elveden was bought by the 1st Earl of Iveagh in 1894, following the death of its previous owner, the Maharajah Duleep Singh, the deposed sovereign of the Sikh nation. The house was extended and enlarged over the next ten years under the architects Clyde Young and Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke.