A GEORGE II MAHOGANY WINE COOLER

POSSIBLY BY JOHN HODSON, MID-18TH CENTURY, THE LEGS LATER

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY WINE COOLER
Possibly by John Hodson, mid-18th Century, the legs later
Of oval basin form with a later drop-in tin lining, the molded rim above a heavy spirally gadrooned frieze and deeply carved scrolling rocaille acanthus and S-scrolled apron centered by shell clasps, on later splayed legs with hoof feet and brass casters
20in. (51cm.) high, 30in. (76 cm.) wide, 22½in. (57cm.) deep

來源

H.J. Joel, Esq., Childwickbury, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, sold Christie's London, 15 May 1978, lot 85.

拍品專文

This cistern is conceived in the George II 'antique' manner and its design is derived from a Roman marble bath and wine-krater vase. The oval bowl is wrapped by reed gadroons and supported above shells and Roman acanthus foliage that wrap the serpentined and richly carved stem. A cistern of this pattern, carved from a single block of mahogany was supplied by John Hodson (d.1786), cabinet-maker at Covent Garden and later Soho, to the Duke of Atholl for Blair Castle, Scotland (illustrated in R. Butler, The Book of Wine Antiques, 1987, pl.22). Another of this form was sold by H.J. Joel in the 1978 sale, the preceding lot 84. A further example was sold from the Jerome C. Neuhoff collection, Sotheby's New York, 25 January 1995, lot 194, and another is illustrated in J. Lee, 'Lion Claw Wine Coolers', Apollo, May 1952, p.133, fig.1.

This cooler features the later addition of horse-form legs. These may have been adapted for their previous owner H.J.Joel, a noted collector and avid horseman.