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Cellaret
about 1810–20
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Medium/Technique
Mahogany, brass fitting, lead lining
Dimensions
Overall: 68.6 x 45.7 x 47.9 cm (27 x 18 x 18 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Aimée Lamb in memory of Winthrop Sargent
Accession Number1975.755
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Case furniture and boxes
This cellaret, for cooling wine bottles, descended in the Sargent family. It is depicted in the lower left corner of Henry Sargent's "The Dinner Party," exhibited in this gallery.
ProvenanceSaid to be the object depicted in Henry Sargent's painting, The Dinner Party; by descent in the Sargent family to the donors; lent to the Museum by them May 13, 1969, and converted to a gift in 1975 (Accession Date: January 14, 1976)