EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY CELLARETTE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The hinged top enclosing a divided, lead-lined interior with a gadrooned tapered body and acanthus scroll feet
23½in. (59.5cm.) high; 32in. (81cm.) wide; 21½in. (54.5cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The wine-bottle sarcophagus, in George IV French/antique fashion, evokes Pan's Arcadia with its 'Roman bath' cistern gadrooned in reeds as popularised by an 1807 'krater' wine-vase in T.Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, (plate XIII). Such robust reeding also features in an 1820 sketch for a related sideboard cistern in Messrs Gillows Estimate Books (Westminster Library, no. 3064); while its wave scrolled truss feet are wrapped in Roman acanthus in the contemporary Louis Quatorze fashion revived by the Wyatt family of architects.

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