AN IRISH MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

Details

AN IRISH MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE
Second half 19th Century
The moulded rectangular top above a plain frieze and a scrolling foliate pierced apron with pounced ground and centred by a lion mask and the sides centred by a scallop-shell, on leaf-wrapped cabriole legs and claw feet
29 in. (75.5 cm.) high; 55 in. (151 cm.) wide; 26 in. (66 cm.) deep

Provenance

Probably supplied to Maxwell Close, Esq. for Drumbanagher, Poyntzpass, co. Armagh and by descent at Drumbanagher to
The Rt. Hon. Archibald Close.

Lot Essay

Drumbanagher, Co. Armagh was a large Italianate house built by William Playfair of Edinburgh for Maxwell Close circa 1837. It is now demolished (M. Bence-Jones, Burke's Guide to Country Houses, Volume I, Ireland, London, 1978, p. 112).

A related mahogany side table by M. Butler Ltd., Upper Abbey Street, Dublin, was sold by the McGrath family, Cabinteely House, Cabinteely, Co. Dublin, Christie's house sale, 5-6 November 1984, lot 99.

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