Lot Essay
A similar wine-cooler, with radially-fluted top, from the Montague Meyer Collection was sold in these Rooms, 24 April 1980, lot 57, and is illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., 1954, vol. I, p. 223, fig. 9. Another is illustrated in P. Macquoid, The Age of Satinwood, 1908, fig. 66