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Millicent Ford Creech Antiques specializes in 17th, 18th, and early 19th century furniture and accessories of fine quality and condition. We also offer paintings by a changing eclectic mix of American and European listed artists. Among the artists currently and recently represented are Olive Parker Black, David Burliuk, Johann Berthelsen, Dines Carlsen, Colin Campbell Cooper, Arthur Bowen Davies, Frederick Usher de Voll, Arthur Wesley Dow, Fremont Ellis, Gilbert Gaul, Arthur Clifton Goodwin, Robert (Cozad) Henri, Frank Townsend Hutchens, Hugh Bolton Jones, Wolf Kahn, William Keith, Emil Jean Kosa Jr., Richard Hayley Lever, Gustave Lino, Maximilien Luce, Gustave Madelain, Jean Mannheim, Willard Leroy Metcalf, Robert Hogg Nisbet, George Loftus Noyes, Roy Cleveland Nuse, Edward Henry Potthast, Frederick Carl Smith, Edmund Charles Tarbell, William Lester Stevens, Gaspar Pieter Verbruggen II (follower), Elisha Kent Kane Wetherill, Charles Herbert Woodbury, Carl Wuttke, and Karl Julius Yens. GEORGE II / III BRASS-BOUND MAHOGANY CELLARET England, c1760, possibly by Gillows* In the manner of Thomas Chippendale, the oval body with vertical staves bound by upper and lower wide brass bands and having lion’s mask ring handles; raised on a conforming oval stand above four square molded splayed legs with C-scroll brackets; tin liner; early if not original finish; originally on casters *Note : A virtually identical wine cistern was supplied by Gillows as a part of a large consignment of dining room furniture for Williams Hasell or Penrith, in 1774 (ref. S. E, Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2008, Vol. 1, p. 307, pl. 337-340). The same lion masks were used by the firm for dining room urns. The mounts were also used by Thomas Chippendale on two pairs of wine coolers supplied to the 5th Earl of Dumfries, for Dumfries House, Scotland, in 1759 and 1763, respectively (ref. C/ Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, Vol II, p. 78, fig 121). The first pair appears in an invoice dated 5 May 1759, as: “Two large mahogany oval cisterns wt. Brass hoops and handles….4—(C. Gilbert op .cit., Vol. I, p. 138). The second pair was ordered along with other furnishings after the Earl’s second marriage to Anne, daughter of William Duff of Crombie, 1762." 23.25” High x 24” Wide x 16” Deep; M. Ford Creech Antiques & Fine Arts in the Current Market
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