A GEORGE II GILT-LACQUERED-BRASS-MOUNTED PADOUK WINE COOLER
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100000GBP £ 100 000
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ID 1450953
Lot 2 | A GEORGE II GILT-LACQUERED-BRASS-MOUNTED PADOUK WINE COOLER
Valeur estimée
£ 100 000 – 150 000
CIRCA 1740
The chain-and-rosette edge above the oval tapering body mounted with two carrying handles with pierced foliate backplates, the body with cabochon waist moulding on a conforming integral base with rope-twist border carved with scrolling acanthus, the shaped apron centred to the long edge with bunches of grapes on short cabriole legs headed by foliate clasps issuing trailing harebells, terminating in boldly-carved hairy-paw feet with concealed leather barrel castors
16 in. (40.5 cm.) high; 27 ½ in. (70 cm) wide; 19 ½ in. (49.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Probably commissioned by James Herbert for Tythrop Park, Buckinghamshire.
By descent at Tythrop Park to A.A. W. Wykeham, Esq., D.L., J.P.,
sold Sotheby's house sale, 21 and 22 August 1933, lot 519.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 February 1954, lot 89.
Acquired from Mallett at the Grosvenor House Fair, June 1954 (invoiced 9 June 1954, the invoice endorsed by R.W. Symonds).
The Samuel Messer Collection of English Furniture, Clocks and Barometers; Christie's, London, 5 December 1991, lot 101 (£165,000 with premium).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., 1954, vol. III, p. 372, fig. 3.
G. Bernard Hughes, 'Wine-Cisterns and Cellarets', Country Life, 8 December 1955, p. 1381, fig. 5.
Exhibited
London, Victoria & Albert Museum, B.A.D.A. Golden Jubilee Exhibition, 1968, no. 157 (Catalogue, fig. 110).
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