Lot 70
70
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A MATCHED PAIR OF WILLIAM IV IRISH ROSEWOOD TUB BERGERES by Williams & Gibton, each with curved padded back arms and squab cushion covered in floral patterned blue ground material, with outscrolled arms and moulded frieze, on turned tapering legs headed by flowerheads and with lotus-leaf collars, on brass caps, one stamped 46061, the other 27143, both stamped WILLIAMS & GIBTON, differences of leg profile, one with caps stamped I.W. LEWTY'S/PATENT below a crown, one front cap with misspelt stamp, the other chair with later caps (2)

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A MATCHED PAIR OF WILLIAM IV IRISH ROSEWOOD TUB BERGERES by Williams & Gibton, each with curved padded back arms and squab cushion covered in floral patterned blue ground material, with outscrolled arms and moulded frieze, on turned tapering legs headed by flowerheads and with lotus-leaf collars, on brass caps, one stamped 46061, the other 27143, both stamped WILLIAMS & GIBTON, differences of leg profile, one with caps stamped I.W. LEWTY'S/PATENT below a crown, one front cap with misspelt stamp, the other chair with later caps (2)
Provenance
The Hon. Mrs Aileen Plunket, Luttrellstown Castle, Clonsilla, Co.Dublin, Ireland, sold Christie's house sale, 26-28 September 1983, probably lot 1384

Lot Essay

This type of richly buttoned bergère, designed in the 'antique' manner with arched back, carved Grecian scroll arms and tapering columnar feet capped by foliage, was first engraved in J. C. Loudon's Encylopaedia, 1833, no. 1926. William Gibton (d. 1842) and Zachariah Williams, his brother-in-law, who took over the administration of the family firm of 'cabinet-makers, upholders , auctioneers, valuators and house agents' in Stafford Street, Dublin in 1830, supplied related furniture to George Bomford for Oakley Park, Kells in the 1830s. In 1811 the firm, trading under the name Mack, William and Gibton, held the title 'Upholders to George III's Board of Works' (see: The Knight of Glin, Dublin Directories, FHS Journal, Leeds, 1985, pp. 269-70)

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