Small Liquor Cellar - Blackened Wood - Brass Fillets - Period: XIXth Century

Lovely and small liqueur cellar in blackened wood with inlaid brass threads on four pretty ball-shaped feet, completely restored, in the rules of the art, by the TWS Workshops (Calais).

Why small? because the interior reveals a complete chiseled crystal kit, made up of only 8 small glasses and 2 decanters with their stoppers, which represents half of a normal-size liqueur cellar.

Period: XIXth
Dimensions: Liqueur cellar: Height: 26.5cm x Width: 21cm x Depth: 20cm
Carafe: Height: 19cm x Width: 6.5 cm
Glass: Height: 7.5cm - ø: 3.5 cm
Dispose of a key.

The liquor cellar is a small piece of furniture of extreme refinement, full of ingenuity. In the middle of the 19th century, the success of liqueurs and the evolution of conviviality led cabinetmakers to launch a small piece of furniture that was moved.

A sort of box with walls that open to make an elegant display. The wooden liquor cellar, which is usually locked with a key, remains a French specialty and the advent of the liberal upper middle class made it an essential object, to the point of becoming the typical wedding gift of the French family.

Quickly, the aristocratic and financial elite, at the origin of the proliferation of decorative objects, exploded the demand for liquor cellars.

The richest families had their monograms and, sometimes, their coat of arms engraved on the central badge.
This rapid success led to a proliferation of models.
New shapes appeared and we discovered round, oval, multi-lobed or octagonal liquor cabinets.

At the same time, the abolition of the corporations allowed the tabletiers to extend their activities to cabinetmaking and encouraged the best craftsmen to produce furniture and boxes, including liquor cellars, true witnesses of a French art of living, counting well. few equivalents abroad.