A REGENCY MAHOGANY OVAL WINE COOLER, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1815

A REGENCY MAHOGANY OVAL WINE COOLERATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1815The radial fluted hinged cover centred by a floral finial and enclosing a lead fitted interior with divisions, the sides with reeded baluster columns on tapering reeded legs and brass caps and castors61cm high, 69cm wide, 49.5cm deepAn almost identical cooler sold Sotheby's London, 30th June 2004, lot 97 (£30,000 incl. BP).This design of these oval wine-cisterns embellished in the Grecian or Pompeian manner with reeded columns was 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. 9Condition Report Disclaimer

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