Lot Essay
A pair of similar chairs belonging to the Knight of Glin, Glin Castle, Co. Limerick are illustrated in his book Irish Furniture, 1978, no.23, and appear in a photograph of The Hall at Glin Castle in L. Synge, 'The Dubliners', The Antique Collector, p.71, fig.4. Another of this model from Forde Abbey, Porsetshire, is illustrated in H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, vol.II, n.d., p.27, fig.9.