拍品專文
The sideboard-table is designed in the early 19th Century Graeco-Roman manner with reed-gadrooned top, Grecian-pedimented ends and lion-monopodia emerging from acanthus-wrapped volutes in the Roman style popularised during the previous century by architects such as William Kent (d. 1748). The palm-wreathed monopodia featured on a sideboard illustrated in George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, 1808, (pl. 93). Similar acanthus-wrapped volutes appear on a stone sideboard illustrated in George Smith's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, London, 1826, (pl. CXXIV.)
The brothers George and Samuel Gillington are recorded at various addresses and in various partnerships from 1815 to 1838. Their warehouses were mostly in Abbey Street and this inevitably led to confusion with the other well-known firm of Mack and Gibton, who also traded from there. George Gillington's trade card begged it'to be observed that his house is in the NARROW PART of Abbey Str.' (D. Fitz-Gerald, 'Dublin Directories and Trade Labels', Furniture History, 1985, p. 266).
A related serving-table in Dublin Castle, bearing the trade label of Mack, Williams and Gibton, the contemporary Dublin cabinet-makers, is illustrated in A. Alexander, 'A Firm of Dublin Cabinet-Makers Mack, Williams & Gibton', Irish Arts Review, Yearbook 1995, vol. II, fig. 13, p. 147.
The brothers George and Samuel Gillington are recorded at various addresses and in various partnerships from 1815 to 1838. Their warehouses were mostly in Abbey Street and this inevitably led to confusion with the other well-known firm of Mack and Gibton, who also traded from there. George Gillington's trade card begged it'to be observed that his house is in the NARROW PART of Abbey Str.' (D. Fitz-Gerald, 'Dublin Directories and Trade Labels', Furniture History, 1985, p. 266).
A related serving-table in Dublin Castle, bearing the trade label of Mack, Williams and Gibton, the contemporary Dublin cabinet-makers, is illustrated in A. Alexander, 'A Firm of Dublin Cabinet-Makers Mack, Williams & Gibton', Irish Arts Review, Yearbook 1995, vol. II, fig. 13, p. 147.