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Lot Essay
This monumental wine cistern, designed 'after the Antique', relates to one with a robust palm-wrapped plinth and paw feet illustrated in George Smith's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1826, pl. LXXV.
A pair of very similar wine-coolers, also with Bacchic masks garlanded with fruiting vines at the corners are illustrated in the saloon at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (see H. Avray Tipping, English Homes, Period IV, Vol. II, figs. 142, 143, pp. 102-3. Another, again with Bacchic masks, was sold anonymously, Sotheby's, New York, 26 October 2002, lot 1937. A further example, this time without the Bacchic masks, but in all other details virtually identical, was sold from the collections of Christopher Gibbs and Harris Lindsay, Christie's, London, 10 May 2006, lot 224.
A pair of very similar wine-coolers, also with Bacchic masks garlanded with fruiting vines at the corners are illustrated in the saloon at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (see H. Avray Tipping, English Homes, Period IV, Vol. II, figs. 142, 143, pp. 102-3. Another, again with Bacchic masks, was sold anonymously, Sotheby's, New York, 26 October 2002, lot 1937. A further example, this time without the Bacchic masks, but in all other details virtually identical, was sold from the collections of Christopher Gibbs and Harris Lindsay, Christie's, London, 10 May 2006, lot 224.