Regency Period Mahogany Wine Cooler

Sarcophagus form with domed hinged top with flat surface. Conforming beveled case with side lions head brass handles. Lions paw feet.

A Regency mahogany wine cooler, of sarcophagus form with reeded ebony edges and mouldings, applied with ormolu lion’s mask ring handles and bold lion’s paw feet, the hinged top openi...

A very fine quality English Regency period wine cooler. Made of maple with inlays in walnut and satinwood. Brass insert with handles. Raised on...

Wonderful Early 19th-Century Regency Mahogany Sarcophagus Wine Cooler or Cellarette A superb early 19th-century Regency period mahogany wine cooler, or cellarette, of sarcophagus ...

A good wine cooler of the Regency period. Constructed in a finely patinated San Domingo mahogany; rising from oblate bun feet, of waisted sarcophagus form, ...

Period late Regency mahogany wine cooler attributed to Gillows, ca 1825. Of Regency "Silver Form" with gadrooned top edge and grape vines motif. Solid Cuban mahogany. Silver form fol...

A fine quality regency perioid mahogany sarcophagus shaped wine cooler, or cellarette, retaining original brass carrying handles and fine colour throughout, raised on original plinth...

Regency period, circa 1815, grand scale oval wine cooler, English. Exceptional quality. Mahogany. Oval flared form accented by robust acanthus carved scrolled handles; beaded plinth;...

Antique Regency quality figured mahogany freestanding wine cooler having a quality figured mahogany rectangular shaped top with a moulded edge opening to reveal a fitted interior for...

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...