The rectangular reservoir top with a pierced scroll frieze and fitted with a later copper liner, raised on ribbon wrapped straight legs headed by pronounced palm leaf capitals and ending on spreading octagonal lotus carved feet.

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The present lot, with its distinct legs and their exotic palm capitals incorporates some of the fanciful elements Thomas Chippendale introduced in his revised third edition of the 'The Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director', published in 1762. Most notable was an exceptional state bed commissioned in 1759 by Lord Dumfries for Dumfries House which had fluted palm leaf wrapped corner posts with lotus leaf capitals (See Christie's, London, July 12, 2007, lot 145). The use of Egyptian style motifs found wider acceptance later in the 18th and early 19th centuries, with Thomas Chippendale the younger contributing designs with a clearly Egyptian slant, most famously for pieces provided to Stourhead in Wiltshire. The present piece may originally have been designed to hold a marble slab top, now absent, and fitted as a cooler or jardiniere in the 19th century.