A REGENCY MAHOGANY OVAL WINE COOLER ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1815 Opening to a lead lined and divided interior 70cm high, 69cm wide, 52cm deep For a near identical example of wine cooler, see Christie's, New York, The Doris Duke Collection, 5th June 2004, Lot 452 ($23,900). For a further virtually identical example see Sotheby's, London, Important English Furniture, 30th June 2004, Lot 97 (£30,000). The oval wine-cistern may on occasion have served as a jardiniere and is embellished in the Grecian or Pompeian manner with reeded columnettes. Gillows' earliest sketch for an oval lead-lined cistern features in their 1787 Estimate Sketch Book (see: L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 178). A similar wine cooler with a fluted cover, was formerly in the collection of the Earls of Stradbroke, Henham Hall, Suffolk. Interestingly, Henham Hall was designed by James Wyatt in the 1790s. The Wyatt family was closely associated with the Gillow family. A wine cooler of this model, again with a fluted cover, was sold from the Montague Meyer family collection, Christie's, London, 24th April 1980, Lot 57. It is illustrated on R, Edwards and P. Macquoid, the dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. l, p. 223, fig 9. A third was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 27th November 2003, Lot 141. Another is illustrated in P. Macquoid, The Age of Satinwood, London, 1908, fig. 66.