Chippendale Period Hexagonal Mahogany Wine Cooler

A hexagonal mahogany wine cooler, 19th century, with a hinged moulded top, enclosing a tin-lined interior with divisions for six bottles, on elegantly detailed cabriole legs with scr...

A George III mahogany octagonal brass bound wine cooler on its original stand. The hinged lid encloses an eight division interior, with brass carrying handles on the side and a fixed...

Of coffered form with reeded and canted corners and inset panels to the four sides raised on hairy paw feet, with original zinc liner.

An oval mahogany wine cooler, George III period, circa 1790. With excellent, unrestored, deep, rich color and patination, and original solid-brass carrying handles to either side. This smart Georgian wine cooler (cellaret or cellarette) retains its original waxed surface and patina. It is brass-bound (of coopered construction) supported on its separate, original stand. Raised on square tapering legs terminating in its original brass cappings and castors. It can be also used as a small side table or lamp table. Comes with a bespoke, clear, safety glass cover. Nb. An antique oval wine cooler of this design is quite rare, and makes a very elegant addition to a dining room sideboard, or an occasional table in a drawing room. By removing the top, some examples of this form of wine cooler were often later converted to be used as jardinières. See Christies, 23rd May 2013, lot 23: a mahogany oval wine cooler sold @ £17,500. Literature: Ralph Edwards CBE FSA 'Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture', Hamlyn, London (Fourth Impression 1972) p. 640: “In late Georgian times the wine cooler was generally a plain mahogany tub hooped with brass and standing on four legs. Mary Kenyon in a letter to her mother (October 30th 1775) wrote that among the furniture in the parlour of her new house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields was a ''handsome cistern of mahogany with brass hoops etc. under the sideboard”. A typical example of a brass-bound wine cooler is shown in a picture by Zoffany, representing William Ferguson...

Hexagonal hinged top with lead lined interior, conforming case with brass strapping, raised on square tapered legs with spandrels at top of legs.

A fine large Chippendale period brass-bound wine cooler of a good original color and patina: unusually the lead still intact and watertight.