A REGENCY MAHOGANY OVAL CELLARET
A REGENCY MAHOGANY OVAL CELLARET

IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS, CIRCA 1810

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY OVAL CELLARET
IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS, CIRCA 1810
The hinged, radially fluted lid centred by a stylised floral finial above slightly tapered sides with projecting reeded baluster columns, enclosing a lead lined interior formerly with divisions, on turned tapering feet with brass caps and castors
25½ in. (62 cm.) high; 26¾ in. (68 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The oval wine-cistern is embellished in the Grecian or Pompeian manner with reeded columnettes. Gillows' 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 fluted cover was formerly in the collection of the Earls of Stradbroke, Henham Hall, Suffolk, a houset designed by James Wyatt in the 1790s (The Wyatt family were closely associated with the Gillow family).
A wine-cooler of this model, again with a fluted cover, was sold anonymously Christie's, London, 27 November 2003, lot 141 (£11,352.50 including premium). Another is illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. I, p. 223, fig. 9.

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