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It is a copy of an eighteenth-century design by the influential French architect, designer and goldsmith, Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier. His design for a single-bottle wine cooler was originally executed in 1723 for Louis-Henri de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, who was Prime Minister under Louis XV from 1723-26.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Wine cooler for one bottle, the handles formed of  two mermaids holding sea monsters. On both sides a panel shows Neptune in his chariot drawn by sea horses beneath the arms of Louis-Henri de Bourbon. 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