The cellaret pattern, with taper-sided and sunk panelled 'sarcophagus' on bacchic lion-paws emerging from Roman foliage, featured in company with a sideboard with 'Egyptian' battered pedestals in Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufacturers etc... 1822 (2nd series, vol. 14, no. 82, pl. 21). This cellaret, with Grecian-stepped lid, evolved from the form of 'tapered cellaret' illustrated in the Supplement to the Cabinet-Maker's London Book of Prices and Designs of Cabinet-Work, 1805, fig. 5, (S. Solny, 'Some unusual Preferences in New York Cellaret Design, 1810-1834', Decorative Arts Journal, New York, vol. V, no. 1, pp. 83-128).
A very similar cellaret was sold in these Rooms, 21 April 1994, lot 129.
Vine-wrapped handles appear on a fluted bucket, sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 3 July 1997, lot 5.