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CELLARET (i.e. little cellar)

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 604 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA
CELLARET (i.e. little cellar) , strictly that portion of a sideboard which is used for holding bottles and decanters, so called from a cellar (which in general may be any underground unlighted apartment) being commonly used for keeping wine. Sometimes it is a drawer, divided into compartments lined with zinc, and sometimes a
cupboard
 , but still an integral
part
  of the sideboard. in the latter
part
  of the 18th century, when the sideboard was in process of
evolution
  from a side-table with drawers into the large and important piece of furniture which it eventually became, the cellaret was a detached receptacle. It was most commonly of
mahogany
  or
rosewood
 , many-sided or even octagonal, and occasionally
oval
 , bound with broad bands of brass and lined with zinc partitions to hold the ice for cooling wine. Sometimes a tap was fixed in 'the lower part for drawing off the water from the melted ice. Cellarets were usually placed under the sideboard, and were, as a
rule
 , handsome and well-proportioned; but as the artistic impulse which created the
great
  18th-century English school of furniture died away, their form grew debased, and under the influence of the English
Empire
  fashion, which drew its
inspiration
  from a bastard classicism, they assumed the shape of sarcophagi incongruously mounted with lions' heads and claw-feet. Hepplewhite called them " gardes du vin "; they are now nearly always known as " wine-coolers."


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