Lot 96
96
THE DINING-ROOM
A REGENCY MAHOGANY SARCOPHAGUS-SHAPED WINE-COOLER attributed to Gillows, the hinged rectangular stepped top with central beaded raised platform enclosing a lead-lined divided interior, the tapering body with raised shaped panels, mounted with a bronze bacchic handle, on claw feet with castors, stamped to the underside ELB

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY SARCOPHAGUS-SHAPED WINE-COOLER attributed to Gillows, the hinged rectangular stepped top with central beaded raised platform enclosing a lead-lined divided interior, the tapering body with raised shaped panels, mounted with a bronze bacchic handle, on claw feet with castors, stamped to the underside ELB
26¾in. (68cm.) wide; 18½in. (47cm.) high; 18¼in. (46cm.) deep
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to Thomas Langford Brooke (d. 1815)
Literature

Lot Essay

This sarcophagus wine-bottle cistern on bacchic lion-paw feet, with its tapering 'herm' chest embellished with a vine-wreathed satyr-mask within an eared tablet frame, typifies the 'antique' style of the early 19th Century and relates to a pattern published by P. and M.A. Nicholson in their, Practical Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and Complete Decorator, 1826

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