A Late Victorian Gilt Metal Mounted Mahogany Cellaret, of hexagonal form, the cover with fluted paterae centred by a pine cone finial over a guilloche frieze and oval paterae handles, on three legs with ram's mask terminals and pad feet, 43cm by 50cm by 74cm

For a similar example see Christie's South Kensington, 26 September 2001 where it is noted a cistern of this pattern was advertised by Mrs Comrath as being in the French Empire style in the Cabinet Maker and Art Furniture book of January 1895