Lot 372
372
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK AND BROWN OAK CELLARET, the rounded rectangular top with stepped centre with beaded edge and a ribbon-tied laurel edge, enclosing a mahogany-lined interior with six metal bottle-holders, with panelled front and the sides with lion-mask and ring-handles, on a stiff-leaf plinth and castors, formerly with feet, lacking one ring

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK AND BROWN OAK CELLARET, the rounded rectangular top with stepped centre with beaded edge and a ribbon-tied laurel edge, enclosing a mahogany-lined interior with six metal bottle-holders, with panelled front and the sides with lion-mask and ring-handles, on a stiff-leaf plinth and castors, formerly with feet, lacking one ring
35in. (89cm.) wide; 22in. (56cm.) high; 19½in. (50cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Designed to accompany a sideboard-table, this richly carved elliptial sarcophagus wine-cistern with reed and pearl bands, epitomises the antique manner promoted by Charles Heathcote Tatham (d.1842), architect to George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV. It relates to the plinth-supported 'celerette' with festive bacchic masks and waterleaf palm-enriched borders that features as plate 98 in A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808, published by the Prince's 'Upholder', George Smith

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