Live Auction 5303Christie's Style & Spirit
A GEORGE II LEAD WATER CISTERN
Lot 445

A GEORGE II LEAD WATER CISTERN

DATED 1734

Closed16 September 2014

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GBP 5,250

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A GEORGE II LEAD WATER CISTERN
DATED 1734
The front with cartouches including various spot-motifs, the initials M.I.E., and the date 1734, the sides with cartouches decorated with classical putti, the interior supported by two internal ribs
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 44 in. (112 cm.) wide, 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

Sotheby's Summers Place, 19th May 1998, lot 468

Specialist note

The cistern was previously owned by Rosa Lewis, a British chef and owner of the Cavendish Hotel in London. She was highly regarded as "Queen of Cooks' and she was chef to Edward VIII, Lady Randolph Churchill and the Astors. The cistern had been purchased for her country house in Jevington, East Sussex, in 1947.