by Paul Storr, London 1815
Campana form, with detachable liners and rims, the rims with guilloche borders, the coolers with bands of gadrooning, lotus and anthemion, and leaf and dart decoration, the handles centred by acanthus leaves, engraved with the arms of ANTROBUS, height 25.5cm, weight 204oz. (2)

Footnotes

The arms are those of Sir Edmund Antrobus, FRS, FSA, created a baronet in 1815. Considering the date of these wine coolers, they may well have been purchased to commemorate the event.

Born in Congleton, Cheshire, in 1752, Edmund's father Philip Antrobus was involved in the dying business, and mayor of that town on three occasions. Using his business connections in London, he secured a job for Edmund as a clerk in Coutts bank. He evidently gained the trust and respect of its founder, Thomas Coutts, as he was later made partner and appeared as an executor in his will.

With his increasing wealth (later estimated at £70,000) Antrobus managed to buy back the family seat, Antrobus Hall, which had been sold by his ancestor Henry Antrobus in 1460. Edmund was unmarried at the time of his death in 1826, and so his baronetcy was passed on to his nephew of the same name by special remainder.

Image courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, London.

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