While the oval wine-cistern, accompanying a sideboard table and embellished with 'bacchic' ring-turned lions and striped flutes, in the manner of ancient sarcophagi, featured in Robert and James Adam's Works in Architecture, 1774-1832, vol. viii, pl. viii. This cellaret with its brass-ribbon bands, lion-footed plinth and lid carved with flutes radiating from a finial, with sunflower medallion, relates more closely to that illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803, pl. 66 and the sarcophagus mentioned in his Encyclopedia of 1805. Thomas Chippendale the younger (d.1822), concurring with Sheraton's desire that a wine-cooler should 'in some joint degree be an imitation of the figure of the ancient stone coffins', supplied a related sarcophagus wine-cooler to Sir Richard Colt Hoare of Stourland (illustrated in R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, 1964, Andover, 6th Impression, 1977, p.640, fig. 8). A related example is in the Royal Pavilion, Brighton (C. Musgrave, Adam and Hepplewhite Furniture, 1966, fig. 168). Two wine-coolers of this model were in the Tritton Collection at Godmersham Park, Kent, sold Christie's house sale, 6-9 June 1983, lots 7 and 8. A further related example from the Edward James Collection at West Dean Park, W. Sussex, was sold Christie's house sale, 2, 3 and 6 June 1986, lot 530