Estimated Price:

$15,000 - $25,000

Realised Price:

$20,315

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Attributed to Gillows, circa 1810 The oval hinged top decorated with radiating flutes and central gadrooned cone finial, enclosing a lead-lined interior with a draining tap, the body with well figured timber, between projecting reeded baluster supports raised on turned tapered feet with brass caps and casters, 231/2in. (60cm.) high, 27in. (69cm.) wide, 19in. (49cm.) deep NOTES This oval wine-cistern, with reeded baluster legs and fluted lid relates to a number of well known examples that are attributable to Gillows. These examples include: one from the collection of Mr. W. Meyer illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. I, p. 223, that subsequently sold from the Montague Meyer Family Collection, Christie's London, 24 April 1980, lot 57; a second from the collection of R. Eden Dickson, Esq., in P. Macquoid, The Age of Satinwood, London, 1908, fig. 66; a third formerly in the collection of the Earls of Stradbroke, Henham Hall, Suffolk; another that sold, the Property of a Descendant of John Lloyd Wynne of Coed Coch, Christie's London, 18 April 1996, lot 231. Two further examples are illustrated in F.L. Hinckley, The More Significant Regency Furniture: 1800-1830, New York, 1991, pl. 24, figs. 52 & 53. Gillows' earliest sketch for an oval lead-lined cistern features in their 1787 Estimate Sketch Book (see L. Boynton, Gillows Furniture Designs: 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 178).