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Wine cooler
Attributed to: Vose and Coates (American, active 1806 – 1815)
Formerly attributed to: John Seymour (American (born in England), 1738–1818)
Formerly attributed to: John Seymour (American (born in England), 1738–1818)
about 1806
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Mahogany and satinwood, hooped with brass
Dimensions
Overall: 72.4 x 49.5 x 57 cm (28 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 22 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession Number39.161
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Case furniture and boxes
This superb wine cooler, which descended in the Derby family, exhibits the contrasting veneers of light-and-dark woods and the lion's-head brasses that characterize Boston furniture of the Federal period. Lead-lined compartments for storing and cooling wine bottles were illustrated in furniture design books of the late eighteenth century. In 1806 Elizabeth Derby purchased a wine cooler from the Boston furniture firm of Isaac Vose and Joshua Coates for $32. This wine cooler may be the one listed in the 1814 inventory of Oak Hill.
Catalogue Raisonné
Eighteenth-Century American Arts No. 74
Provenance"The M. & M. Karolik Collection of 18th century American Arts."