A GEORGE II BRASS-BOUND MAHOGANY WINE-COOLER

CIRCA 1740

Details

A GEORGE II BRASS-BOUND MAHOGANY WINE-COOLER
CIRCA 1740
The oval slightly everted body with scroll handles and later brass insert with handles, above the detachable stand with foliate-carved cabriole legs terminating in pierced claw-and-ball feet with recessed leather castors, the underside of the cooler with paper label printed 'WYE TRANSPORT MONMOUTH', five angle brackets later, the sides slightly reduced in height, the base previously but not originally used as a stool and with consequential nail-holes
19½ in. (50 cm.) high, 28½ in. (72 cm.) wide, 17 in. (43 cm.) deep

Provenance

James, 5th Baron de Saumarez (d. 1969), Shrubland Park, Barham, Suffolk and by descent.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 30 November 2000, lot 4.

Lot Essay

Patterns for related oval 'voiders' or trays were published in Messrs. William Ince and John Mayhew's Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762, and featured the Ionic-scrolled handles after the Roman and antique manner introduced in the 1720s. One such oval cistern, wreathed with golden ribbons, was acquired by Robert Berry (d. 1782) for Raith, Scotland, and serves for glasses and bottles in a painting executed in 1769 by Johann Zoffany (Arts Council Exhibition, Johann Zoffany, 1960, no. 11).

Shrubland Park, Suffolk is an Italianate mansion, at the heart of which is a five bay brick house built for Rev'd John Bacon by James Paine in the early 1770s. It was enlarged between 1830 and 1832 by J.P. Gandy-Deering and further encased by Sir Charles Barry.

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