LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY

For a related example see, The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A., Christie's London, 18-19 September 2013, lot 260. The Professor Richardson example which had a galvanised liner, was believed to be a wine cooler made for a Naval tavern and such an object is illustrated in an engraving of a tavern interior by George Cruikshank (1792-1878), entitled Sailors Carousing of circa 1825, a copy of which is held in The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.