A pair of George III style mahogany and ormolu mounted wine coolers late 19th century

the hexagonal hinged and moulded tops surmounted by gadrooned domes with pinapple finials, the interior of one with four lead-lined divisions, the other with seven lead-lined divisions, each guilloche mounted frieze above four moulded splayed supports headed by a ram`s mask and with hoof feet with concealed castors, the sides each with a pair of garland ring handles on a pierced patera back plate, the unside of one wine cooler retaining the manuscript paper label `ENID LADY BURNHAM/ WYCOMBE END HOUSE.'

Enid, Lady Burnham ( 1894-1979) was the widow of Edward Frederick Levy-Lawson, 4th Baron Burnham, CB., DSO, MC, TD, DL Bucks, (1890-1963).

Good overall condition. Both wine coolers with two repaired cracks to the legs. Minor old marks bruising and scratches.
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Frances Collard in Regency Furniture, p.245 illustrates a wine cooler of identical form to the present lot together with a design by Conrath published in The Cabinet Maker & Art Furnisher  of January 1895.

Another example is illustrated in Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed. 1954, 3 vols, vol. III, p. 133, fig. 24 and one of a pair is illustrated in Yvonne Hackenbroch, English Furniture in the Irwin Untermeyer Collection, London, 1958, fig. 49,  in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.