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A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY BRASS-BOUND WINE-COOLER
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A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY BRASS-BOUND WINE-COOLER

CIRCA 1830

Details
A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY BRASS-BOUND WINE-COOLER
CIRCA 1830
Of rounded rectangular form with everted moulded edge and lead liner, each end with carrying-handles, on turned baluster legs with brass caps and castors
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high; 38 in. (96.5 cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
The late Mary Fry, neé Fane, Fulbeck Hall, Lincolnshire; Sotheby's, Olympia, 8 October 2002, lot 176.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The robust form of wine-bottle cistern cellaret or sarcophagus in the manner of a Roman marble bath or 'lavacrum' was popularised by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807. This vine-handled cistern, wreathed by golden bacchic ribbons relates to a sideboard-cistern that is likely to have been amongst furnishings invoiced in 1809 for Southill, Bedfordshire by Messsrs Tatham, Bailey and Saunders (F. J. B. Watson, Southill, London, 1951, fig. 17; and Dictionary of English Furniture Makers: 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 278). It may have been amongst the Regency furniture brought to Fulbeck from Well Vale, Lincolnshire.

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