A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.
Covered case-piece to hold bottles of wine.
An eighteenth century lidded case for wine bottles, often of the highest craftsmanship, usually on casters. Cellarets were fitted with locks to keep bibulous servants at bay and were typically kept under serving tables in the dining room. Sideboards, introduced at the end of the century, included cupboards for storing bottles. They rapidly replaced cellarets.
sideboard with compartments for holding bottles
Lidded container on legs designed to hold wine. The interior is often divided into sections for individual bottles
18th C term for wine coolers and containers, and for the drawer in some sideboards designed for storing wine.
A wine cooler with a lockable lid, usually fitted with a bottle rack.
A case or sideboard for holding bottles of wine or liquor.
A cellaret may be a case of cabinet-work for holding wine bottles, or strictly that portion of a sideboard that is used for holding bottles and decanters, so called from a cellar's 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.
