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Lot Essay
This pier table with a radiating veneered top and burr-yew medallions on the frieze, relates to a satinwood and marquetry pier table supplied to Thomas Cobbe (1733-1814) for the drawing-room at Newbridge House, Co. Dublin by the Dublin cabinet-maker, John Wisdom, of 21 Jervis Street and invoiced by him on 20 August 1790 for £5.13.9. It also has a radiating veneered top and a yew-wood-scalloped edge and stands on square tapering 'herm' legs (J. Peill, 'Heirlooms of Newbridge House', Irish Arts Review, Summer, 2003, pp. 102-103, fig. 12). Interestingly, yew-wood was a leitmotif of the London cabinet-makers, Mayhew and Ince, whose pupil William Moore left London to set up his own business in Dublin.
The chalk inscription on the present lot almost certainly refers to P. J. Walsh & Sons of 19 & 20 Bachelors' Walk, Dublin, cabinet-makers, upholsterers and auctioneers, who were resident there between 1870 and 1922. The four figure inventory number was used by the 1st Earl of Iveagh.
The chalk inscription on the present lot almost certainly refers to P. J. Walsh & Sons of 19 & 20 Bachelors' Walk, Dublin, cabinet-makers, upholsterers and auctioneers, who were resident there between 1870 and 1922. The four figure inventory number was used by the 1st Earl of Iveagh.