CIRCA 1760

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AN IRISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY BUREAU-CABINET-ON-STAND
CIRCA 1760
The arched open pediment centred by a shaped platform with ball finial, above a pair of panelled doors enclosing an adjustable shelf above six pigeon-holes and three drawers, the bureau section enclosing a fitted interior of pigeon-holes and drawers one with divisions and two later glass ink-wells, around a door enclosing a drawer, on a stand with a drawer above a carved shell, on cabriole legs and pad feet, the reverse inscribed in pencil 'Ballinockill'
88 in. (223.5 cm.) high; 38¾ in. (98.5 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Provenance

Ballinockill (?).

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Lot Essay

The book-cabinet's triumphal arched temple pediment, in the George II 'Roman' fashion, relates to a 'Tuscan' bookcase pattern as featured in B. Langley's Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, 1740 (pl. 27) and to a patterned pediment which displays a sacred urn within a scallop-fretted cartouche that caps a secretaire-cabinet from Dromahair, Co. Leitrim. Its arched door tablets appear on a mid-18th century cabinet probably commissioned by Windham Quin (d. 1789) of Adare, co. Limerick (The Knight of Glin and J. Peill, Irish Furniture, New Haven & London, 2007, pl. 164 and cat. 187).

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