AN IRISH REGENCY MAHOGANY SERVING-TABLE

CIRCA 1815, WITH LATER PLINTH

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AN IRISH REGENCY MAHOGANY SERVING-TABLE
CIRCA 1815, WITH LATER PLINTH
The top with pedimented gallery and concave-cut sides, above a Vitruvian scrolled frieze, on lion monopodia, on a concave plinth base, inscribed in chalk on the underside of the plinth '257'
50½ in. (128 cm.) high, 104½ in. (265.5 cm.) wide, 28½ in. (72.5 cm.) deep

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, An Exhibition of Irish Georgian Furniture, Dublin, 2000, pp. 44-45, no. 15.

Exhibited

Dublin, Johnston Antiques, An Exhibition of Irish Georgian Furniture, 2000, no. 15.

Lot Essay

The temple pedimented sideboard is designed in the fashionable style promoted by such publications as George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration in 1808. Smith illustrates a design for a sideboard with leopard monopodia (pl. 93).
A pedimented sideboard table, supplied to Lord Bellew for Jenkinstown, Co. Kilkenny, by Mack, Williams & Gibton, was sold from the Ingrao Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 20 October 2006, lot 68 (illustrated in A. Alexander, 'A Firm of Dublin Cabinet-Makers: Mack, Williams & Gibton', The Irish Arts Review Yearbook, 1995, vol. II, p. 142, figs. 1 and 2).

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