Lot Essay
The design for this cistern is similar to a Queen Anne cistern by Gabriel Sleath of 1710 from the collection of the Dukes of Portland, exhibited London, 25 Park Lane, W. 1., Loan Exhibition of Old English Plate, 1929, no. 153 and described in E. A. Jones, Catalogue of Plate belonging to the Duke of Portland, K.G., G.C.V.O., at Welbeck Abbey, London, 1935, p. 134