Wine cooler
Vose and Coates
(American, active 1806 – 1815)
John Seymour
(American (born in England), 1738–1818)
about 1806
Object PlaceBoston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/TechniqueMahogany and satinwood, hooped with brass
DimensionsOverall: 72.4 x 49.5 x 57 cm (28 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 22 7/16 in.)
Credit LineThe M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession number39.161
On View
On viewClassificationsFurniture
Collections
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.
Provenance"The M. & M. Karolik Collection of 18th century American Arts."
