George III Mahogany Oval Cellarette

Heptagon shape hinged lid opening to a lined interior. Conforming case to brass strapping. Square molded legs with spandrels. Casters and key.

Octagonal hinged lid opening to a compartment [ lacking liner ]. Conforming case section. With a flute carved top of base with four molded legs and casters. Key.

Hexagonal hinged top opening to a lead lined interior, conforming base with brass strapping and side handles, square tapered legs, casters.

In very nice condition nicely French polished with fitted tin interior. Octagonal form with satinwood banding and central circular fan inlay. Hinged top. The base with reeded frieze ...

This handsome 19th-century mahogany cellarette is octagonal in shape and features beautiful brass banding, hardware and casters. Originally used to...

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...

Gueridon table ebonised with lamp black. French polished by hand. Gold leaf applied by hand. 2 dove tail drawers. 4 legs tapered with cross streather at bottom. Hardware Right pol...

19th Century George IV mahogany cellarette, or vin de garde, of sarcophagus form, with hinged lid and brass side carrying handles, raised on castors. Featuring a flat rectangular top...