Lot 194
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AN IRISH GEORGE III SATINWOOD, MAHOGANY, AMARANTH AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED PIER TABLE
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AN IRISH GEORGE III SATINWOOD, MAHOGANY, AMARANTH AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED PIER TABLE

CIRCA 1780

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AN IRISH GEORGE III SATINWOOD, MAHOGANY, AMARANTH AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED PIER TABLE
CIRCA 1780
Crossbanded overall in tulipwood, with radiating and scallop veneered demi-lune top centred by a tablet, above a tablet decorated frieze painted with a still life of fruit and trophies of bows and arrows, on square tapering foliate-decorated legs, with paper label inscribed in blue chalk '83', repairs to the back legs
32 in. (81 cm.) high; 60 in. (153 cm.) wide; 23 in. (58.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Possibly supplied to Frederick Trench of Moate and Woodlawn, Co. Galway (d. 1797) and by descent in the Chenevix Trench family in whose Dublin townhouse it is meant to have stood.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The pier table, of elliptic or demi-medallion form, has its top ray-mosaiced with a golden scallop-shell in the 'Roman' manner popularised by the Works in Architecture, 1774 of Robert and James Adam and as featured in a table pattern in Thomas Malton's Compleat Treatise on Perspective, 1775 (pl. XXXIV). While trophies of Cupid's weapons and 'Apollo' sunflowers cap the herm-tapered legs, the parlour table's frame is decorated with corn trophies and fruit evoking the agriculture deity, Ceres. Its 'Pomona' tablet reflects the fashion popularised from the 1770s by the Curzon Street Peintre Ebeniste George Brookshaw (d. 1823), author of Pomona Britannica, 1812 (L. Wood, 'George Brookshaw - II', Apollo, June 1991. A related polychrome-decorated pier table is in the collection of the National Museum of Ireland on loan to 29 Lower FitzWilliam Street, Dublin. The top and central tablet are decorated with rustic buildings and ruins including an Irish round tower, all executed in grisaille on a black ground.

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