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Lot Essay
The rectilinear mahogany wine-cistern, of taper-sided 'basket' form, is wreathed by golden ribboned 'hoops'. Similarly hooped 'cellerets' or 'gardes de vin', on antique-fluted and elegant herm-tapered legs, were introduced in the 1770s and later popularised by Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788 (pl.37).
This cellaret probably formed part of the furnishings introduced by Richard Myddelton (d.1795) in the 1780s, around the time of his marriage to Mary Lloyd of Rhydwriel (d.1788), with its fluted frieze echoing that of the serving table (lot 100), this Cellaret may well be that amongst the 'Mahogany Sideboard, pair of Pedestals, Oafses (vases?) and Cellaret 21.0.0' recorded in the Dining Room in the 1795 Inventory.
This cellaret probably formed part of the furnishings introduced by Richard Myddelton (d.1795) in the 1780s, around the time of his marriage to Mary Lloyd of Rhydwriel (d.1788), with its fluted frieze echoing that of the serving table (lot 100), this Cellaret may well be that amongst the 'Mahogany Sideboard, pair of Pedestals, Oafses (vases?) and Cellaret 21.0.0' recorded in the Dining Room in the 1795 Inventory.