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Lot Essay
The oval wine-cistern embellished in the Grecian or Pompeian manner with reeded columnettes was frequently supplied both with and without a hinged cover by Gillows, whose earliest sketch for an oval lead-lined cistern features in their 1787 Estimate Sketch Book (see: L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 178). A similar wine-cooler with a fluted cover, was formerly in the collection of the Earls of Stradbroke at Henham Hall, Suffolk, a house designed by James Wyatt in the 1790s. The Wyatt family were closely associated with the Gillows firm and James Wyatt supplied designs to the firm as early as 1774. A related example is illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. I, p. 223, fig. 9; it was later sold from the Montague Meyer family collection at Christie's, London, 24 April 1980, lot 57. Another is illustrated in P. Macquoid, The Age of Satinwood, London, 1908, fig. 66.
A wine-cooler of this model, with fluted cover, was sold anonymously Christie's, London, 27 November 2003, lot 141 (£11,352.50 inc' prem') and another sold, also Christie's, London, 14 November 2013, lot 53 (£13,750 inc' prem'). Another, but with later lion mask handles, was sold anonymously Christie's, London, 23 May 2018 (£7,500 inc' prem').
A wine-cooler of this model, with fluted cover, was sold anonymously Christie's, London, 27 November 2003, lot 141 (£11,352.50 inc' prem') and another sold, also Christie's, London, 14 November 2013, lot 53 (£13,750 inc' prem'). Another, but with later lion mask handles, was sold anonymously Christie's, London, 23 May 2018 (£7,500 inc' prem').