A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CELLARET A beautifully faded and patinated late 18th century Adam period mahogany cellaret, having a hinged caddy top veneered with figured mahogany with Dutch axe handle, revealing a fitted interior for nine bottles, and having fielded sides similarly veneered, retaining the original brass swan-neck lifting handles and with triple fluted canted corners: on a fixed stand with fluted frieze and turned paterae, and four square tapering fluted legs with corner angles, terminating in leather castors. English, circa 1780 Height: 30 ¾ in; 78 cm Width: 17 ¾ in; 45 cm Depth: 17 ¼ in; 44 cm Provenance: Hotspur Ltd., London; Private Collection, Northamptonshire. Literature: Illustrated: Robin Butler, Gillian Walkling, ‘The Book of Wine Antiques’, 1986, p.113, pl. 103.