Live Auction 21109The Collection of Ann & Gordon Getty: Wheatland
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BLUE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT WINE COOLER
Lot 227

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BLUE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT WINE COOLER

ATTRIBUTED TO INCE AND MAYHEW, CIRCA 1780

Closed19 October 2023

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BLUE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT WINE COOLER
ATTRIBUTED TO INCE AND MAYHEW, CIRCA 1780
The oval open top with gadrooned rim and removable brass-liner, the front side carved with tied swags, above a Vitruvian scroll frieze, on square tapering legs with leaf-wrapped block feet with brass caps and leather castors, originally with hinged lid
25 ¼ in. (64.1 cm.) high, 26 in. (66 cm.) wide, 19 ½ in. (49.5 cm.) deep

The Property of David Style, Esq., Wateringbury Place, Maidstone, Kent; Christie's, London, 31 May 1978, lot 225.
With Mallett, London, circa 1979.
The Property of a Lady; Christie's, London, 19 September 2001, lot 483.
Acquired by Ann Getty from the above.

Specialist note

The swagged oval wine-cooler relates to one formerly at Parham, Sussex and sold by the executors of the late 17th Baroness Zouche of Haryngworth; Christie's, London, 21 April 1966. The latter differed from the present cooler in the fluted upper edge, guilloche carved lower edge and Ionic capitalled and paneled tapering legs. The cooler formed part of a dining-room suite which included two bowfront serving-tables and a pair of knife-urns and pedestals. The Parham wine-cooler was later sold from the Palm Beach Residence of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman; Sotheby's, New York, 5 May 1984, lot 176. (See: H. Roberts and C. Cator, Industry and Ingenuity: The Partnership of WIlliam Ince and John Mayhew, London, 2022, pp. 196-206).