Live Auction 21919An Opulent Aesthetic: An Important Private Collection from an English Country House
A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV ORMOLU WINE COOLERS
Lot 102

A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV ORMOLU WINE COOLERS

CIRCA 1835

Closed9 February 2023

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GBP 15,120

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A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV ORMOLU WINE COOLERS
CIRCA 1835
Each with the scrolling everted bowl with floral trails and up-turned icicle clasp above a gadrooned rim and the domed foot with floral trails with lion's mask, with later glass liners, re-gilt
11 1/2 in. (29 cm.) high

Property from a Private Canadian Collection; sold Christie's, New York, 20 October 2006, lot 323 ($36,000).

Specialist note


These wine coolers closely relate to English silver-work of the 1820s. Related examples include a pair of silver wine coolers by Robert Garrard dated 1825 (sold Sotheby's, New York, 11 April 2000, lot 154) and another pair of silver-gilt wine coolers by Benjamin Smith of 1826 (sold Sotheby's, New York, 15 December, 1993, lot 96). Other pieces being supplied by Paul Storr and John Bridge and retailed by the celebrated London firm of Rundell, Bridge & Rundell are also similar to the present wine coolers (see C. Hartop, Royal Goldsmiths: The Art of Rundell & Bridge 1797 - 1843, London, 2005, nos. 26 and 56, pp. 87 and 101).