Details
A George III mahogany cellarette
Decorated with boxwood lines, the rectangular crossbanded hinged top opening to reveal twelve open compartments, the front fitted with a deep drawer enclosing twenty-one open compartments, with carrying handles to the sides, on square tapering legs headed with paterae, with later spandrels, including six glass bottles (two damaged)
23¼in. (59cm.) wide, 35¾in. (98.5cm.) high, 20¼in. (51cm.) deep
Decorated with boxwood lines, the rectangular crossbanded hinged top opening to reveal twelve open compartments, the front fitted with a deep drawer enclosing twenty-one open compartments, with carrying handles to the sides, on square tapering legs headed with paterae, with later spandrels, including six glass bottles (two damaged)
23¼in. (59cm.) wide, 35¾in. (98.5cm.) high, 20¼in. (51cm.) deep
Provenance
Bearing a label "McNeil of Barra's Library. Brandy Chest mentioned on p.175 of Neil Munro's The New Road, a novel published in 1914. The brandy chest and bottles were bought at a Scottish Castle sale in the late 1930's"