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Description A George III brass bound mahogany wine cooler
circa 1760, in the manner of Thomas Chippendale
of coopered form,?with boldly cast lion mask ring handles
21cm. high, 74cm. wide including handles, 48cm. deep.
Condition Report In country house condition. The interior, particularly the mahogany 'floor', with splits. The brass bands and loose and lifting in places, as a result some staves are loose. Residual polish to brass elements, notably masks. Generally with typical old marks, chips, dents and scratches. No liner. This piece would originally have been raised on a stand, it works though as effectively, without.
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Literature Inventory, 1885, p. 29, in the dining room;
Arthur T. Bolton, ‘Mersham le Hatch’,?
Country Life, 26 March 1921, photographed in the dining room, p. 371;
Inventory, 1926, p. 25, in the dining room;
H. Avray Tipping,
English Homes, Late Georgian, 1760-1820, London, 1926, in situ, p.131;
Peter Thornton, The Furnishing of Mersham-le-Hatch, Part I,?
Apollo,?April 1970, p.266, fig.2;
Christopher Hussey
, English Country Houses, Mid Georgian 1760-1800, London, 1984, in situ, p.102.
Provenance Acquired by Sir Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham,?6th Baronet?(1737-1763) or his heir?Sir Edward Knatchbull, 7th Baronet (1704-1789)
Notes We know Thomas Chippendale supplied Mersham with several pieces of coopered dining room equipment in 1769. Both the ‘neat Mahogany Plate Basket with a Brass Bow handle’ and ‘a large Mahogany Plate pail wt Brass hoops & handles’ are illustrated in Christopher Gilbert’s monograph on Chippendale,
The Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, Vol. II, p. 177, fig. 318, however, the present lot - now lacking its original stand - does not feature in the accounts. The form and distinctive lion mask handles were not uncommon in the 1760s?with several documented examples surviving by Gillows, as well as a famous pair supplied by Chippendale to Dumfries House in 1759 and 1763 (see Gilbert,
op. cit., pp.78-79, figs. 121-122).