Lot 103
103
AN IRISH MID-GEORGIAN MAHOGANY BOTTLE-STAND, the tray-top with inverted lambrequin border and arched carrying-handle flanked by eight divisions, the stand with rounded rectangular gadrooned top, the shaped frieze carved with foliage sprays on a punched ground on paw feet and brass castors, inscribed in pencil G.C., two legs repaired

Details
AN IRISH MID-GEORGIAN MAHOGANY BOTTLE-STAND, the tray-top with inverted lambrequin border and arched carrying-handle flanked by eight divisions, the stand with rounded rectangular gadrooned top, the shaped frieze carved with foliage sprays on a punched ground on paw feet and brass castors, inscribed in pencil G.C., two legs repaired
28½in. (72.5cm.) wide; 16½in. (42cm.) deep; 22½in. (57cm.) high
Provenance
Bought from R.A. Lee, 25 November 1964, for #425

Lot Essay

The base of this bottle-stand is almost identical to that of lot 111. A similar bottle-stand from the Mulliner Collection is illustrated in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., London, 1954, Vol. III, p.374, fig. 1

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