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拍品专文
A closely related though slightly more elaborate wine-cooler was sold anonymously '50 Years of Collecting: The Decorative Arts of Georgian England', Christie's, London, 14 May 2003, lot 38 (£100,450 including premium). The richly carved decoration of that example indicates the hand of a specialist carver such as Sefferin Alken (d.1783) of Golden Square, London, and his son Samuel Alken, author of a pattern book of arabesque antique foliage, while the present wine-cooler is perhaps a standard model that could be embellished to order. The former is illustrated in C. Claxton-Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, p. 252 and pp. 246 - 247, colour plates 24a and 24b .