A George III gilt-bronze mounted mahogany wine cooler on stand circa 1770, attributed to Thomas Chippendale

of coopered construction with a replaced lead lining

In good overall restored condition. Minor old marks and scratches. Castors possibly later.
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The design for the present wine cooler is based on a pattern for an oval cistern featured in the Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1773 - 1779, Vol.II, no. 2, pl. VIII. The present lot also relates to a more elaborate example sold Sotheby`s London, Property from the Collection of the late Lady Samuel of Wych Cross, 18th November 2008, lot 48. The pattern for the wreath handled bacchic satyr-masks, appears in designs of the late 1760s attributed to Thomas Chippendale and is fitted to a pair of ormolu-mounted rosewood cellarets, part of the celebrated sideboard suite supplied by Chippendale for the dining-room at Harewood House, Yorkshire,  for Edwin Lascelles (d. 1795). The 1795 inventory of the dining-room included "One Oval Wine Keeper with brass ornaments" (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. I, p. 201 and vol. II, figs. 486 and 125).