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CELLARET (i.e. little cellar)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 604 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CELLARET (i.e. little cellar) , strictly that portion of a See also:sideboard which is used for holding bottles and decanters, so called from a cellar (which in See also:general may be any underground unlighted apartment) being commonly used for keeping See also:wine. Sometimes it is a drawer, divided into compartments lined with See also:zinc, and sometimes a See also:cupboard, but still an integral See also:part of the sideboard. in the latter part of the 18th See also:century, when the sideboard was in See also:process of See also:evolution from a See also:side-table with drawers into the large and important piece of See also:furniture which it eventually became, the cellaret was a detached receptacle. It was most commonly of See also:mahogany or See also:rosewood, many-sided or even octagonal, and occasionally See also:oval, See also:bound with broad bands of See also:brass and lined with zinc partitions to hold the See also:ice for cooling wine. Sometimes a tap was fixed in 'the See also:lower part for See also:drawing off the See also:water from the melted ice. Cellarets were usually placed under the sideboard, and were, as a See also:rule, handsome and well-proportioned; but as the See also:artistic impulse which created the See also:great 18th-century See also:English school of furniture died away, their See also:form See also:grew debased, and under the See also:influence of the English See also:Empire See also:fashion, which See also:drew its See also:inspiration from a See also:bastard classicism, they assumed the shape of sarcophagi incongruously mounted with lions' heads and claw-feet.

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