CIRCA 1730/40, PROBABLY IRISH

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE
CIRCA 1730/40, PROBABLY IRISH
The rectangular top with re-entrant corners and a moulded edge, with a cavetto frieze, on cabriole legs with pad feet, inscribed in yellow chalk beneath the bearers of the top 'BRAND 4 CHURCH DRIVE CARRINGTON' but the top probably original, one foot cut, with pegged construction
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 52¼ in. (132.5 cm.) wide; 25¾ in. (65.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Although tables finished on all four sides are exceptionally unusual, they do exist in the 18th Century, as can be seen for instance on the pair of oak sideboard-tables with marble slabs commissioned for Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire by Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Bt. and later 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) in the 1750s. These latter tables are listed in the 1804 Inventory in the Steward's Room (Inventory of the Household Goods and Furniture in Kedleston House belonging to the Rt. Hon. Nath. Lord Scarsdale decd., December 1804, Kedleston Archives). The Kedleston tables were sold by the Kedleston Estate Trustees in these Rooms, 4 July 2002, lot 123.

The unusual flattened angle brackets and pegged construction relate to Dublin furniture of the mid-18th Century.

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