CIRCA 1805, POSSIBLY BY FARRINGTONS, THE DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS OF LANCASTER

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY SARCOPHAGUS SHAPED WINE COOLER
CIRCA 1805, POSSIBLY BY FARRINGTONS, THE DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS OF LANCASTER
With a hinged top enclosing a lead-lined interior with brass lion mask ring handles to the sides, the underside with two printed paper labels 'Farr's Dep's Ltd.' and indistinct inscription
29 in. (74 cm.) wide

Provenance

Purchased by Sir James Hunter Blair, 8th Bart. (d. 2004), Christie's London, 26 April 1990, lot 65.

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Lot Essay

The sideboard wine-cistern or cellaret, with Egyptian reeded pillars, Grecian-stepped dome and bacchic lion-masks, appears to have evolved from a pattern for a herm-tapered sideboard and 'tapered cellaret' published in The Supplement to the Cabinet-Makers London Book of Prices, and Designs of Cabinet-Work, London, 1805 (pl.1). The latter inspired the manufacture of a cellaret, bearing the Leyton-Blenkinsopp family armorials, by Messrs Farringtons, the Newcastle firm of 'Ship and House Carvers, Cabinet-Makers and Joiners' (F. Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, p.27). It would appear that the present cistern was also manufactured by Farringtons.

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