Solomon Gubbay was a rope and jute merchant who travelled extensively and lived in America in the 1920s. His cousin, David Gubbay and his wife Hannah, bequeathed their impressive collection of furniture and procelain to the National Trust in 1968, and it is now displayed at Clandon Park, Surrey.
Solomon Gubbay began collecting circa 1930 and his eclectic taste clearly shows from the pieces of furniture sold from his collection in these Rooms. For example: a George II blue-painted dresser (lot 196, 14 May 1992); a George II rolled paper mirror and pair of console tables en suite (lots 213 and 214, 6 April 1995); a George IV red-painted and simulated bamboo cabinet-on-stand and a William and Mary burr-elm chest (lots 83 and 84, April 1996) and an Irish George II mahogany bureau-on-stand, (lot 78, April 1997).