A GEORGE III MAHOGANY WINE-COOLER

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY WINE-COOLER
Of canted rectangular form, with tapering sides and central division with carrying-handle, the sides with lion-mask ring-handles, on a later stand with splayed legs joined by an X-frame stretcher, previously with castors, the stand remade with two later legs and a later stretcher
22¾ in. (58 cm.) high; 75 in. (89 cm.) wide; 25¼ in. (74 cm.) deep

來源

Probably supplied to Peter Thellusson, Esq. (d. 1797) for Brodsworth Hall, Doncaster, Yorkshire and by descent at Brodsworth to the Grant-Dalton family until sold by The Brodsworth Chattels Settlement, in these Rooms, 5 July 1990, lot 96 (£6,050).

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拍場告示

Please note that the measurements should read 35 in. (89 cm.) wide; 25¼ in. (64 cm.) deep, and not as stated in the catalogue.

拍品專文

The brass handles of bacchic ring-bearing lion-masks correspond to a pattern possibly invented by Benjamin Goodison (d. 1767) and feature on the cistern he is thought to have supplied to Althorp, Northamptonshire, in about 1730 (R. Edwards, Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1977, p. 639). They also relate to the handles which decorate a pair of brass-bound oval wine-coolers that were probably supplied to James Eliot (d. 1742) following the building of the dining-room at Port Eliot, Cornwall and sold by the St. Germans 1962 Settlement, in these Rooms, 19 November 1992, lot 96. Thomas Chippendale supplied a pair of wine-coolers to Dumfries House, Ayrshire, in 1759 and 1763 with the same form of handles (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, vol. II, London, 1978, figs. 121, 122).

A single wine-cooler with this model of handles was sold in these Rooms, 23 April 1998, lot 82. A further example was sold from the H.J. Joel Collection, in these Rooms, 17 April 1980, lot 72.