Lot 125
125
The Property of
AN IRISH GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE with rounded rectangular top above a trellis-pattern carved frieze centred by a pendant grotesque mask flanked by scallop-shells and oak leaf swags issuing from flowerheads, the sides with conforming drapery swags, on squared cabriole legs headed by bold leaf carving and on paw feet, some glue blocks replaced

Details
AN IRISH GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE with rounded rectangular top above a trellis-pattern carved frieze centred by a pendant grotesque mask flanked by scallop-shells and oak leaf swags issuing from flowerheads, the sides with conforming drapery swags, on squared cabriole legs headed by bold leaf carving and on paw feet, some glue blocks replaced
66¼in.(168.5cm.)wide; 32¾in.(83cm.)high
Provenance
Probably supplied to Harvey Morres of Castle Morres, Co. Kilkenny, created Baron Mount Morres in 1756 and a Viscount in 1763
Thence by descent to the present owner

Lot Essay

This table would have been supplied for the new Palladian house designed by Francis Bindon in the 1750s for Harvey Morres.
A very similar side table with identical legs and swags, and almost certainly from the same workshop, is illustrated in P. Broome, The Hyde Park Collection 1965 - 1990, New York, 1989, p. 89

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