POSSIBLY BY JOHN COBB

Details

A GEORGE III BRASS-BOUND MAHOGANY WINE-COOLER
Possibly by John Cobb
Of canted rectangular form with metal liner and carrying-handles to the ends, on a stand with Vitruvian-scrolled freize, on square tapering legs headed by foliage and with pierced angled-brackets, on brass and leather castors, one angle-bracket and the oak inner frame replaced
24¼ in. (61.5 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide; 17¾ in. (45 cm.) deep

Literature

C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Leeds, 1978, p. 287.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

This wine-cooler has a different history to lot 137, the serving-table from Banks Fee House. The late Christopher Gilbert suggested that this might be a wine-cooler that had accompanied the Boynton Hall side table, now at Temple Newsam House and referred to in the footnote to lot 137. However, this wine cooler was not in the Boynton Hall house sale in 1959 so this must remain speculative. In the Temple Newsam catalogue (loc. cit.) Christopher Gilbert referred to an old photograph showing the wine cooler beneath the sideboard table at Boynton Hall. He subsequently withdrew the statement that the wine-cooler in the photograph has a lid (unpublished information).

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