AN IRISH MID-VICTORIAN YEW, CEDAR AND MARQUETRY DAVENPORT, inlaid overall with ferns and foliage, the rectangular top with three-quarter gallery above a hinged slope centred by an oval depicting a ruined abbey and inscribed MUCKROSS, the interior with six mahogany-lined drawers, the frieze with one concave-fronted drawer, above a pair of recessed doors, enclosing five drawers and flanked by spirally-turned columns, with one side fitted drawer and on plinth base

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AN IRISH MID-VICTORIAN YEW, CEDAR AND MARQUETRY DAVENPORT, inlaid overall with ferns and foliage, the rectangular top with three-quarter gallery above a hinged slope centred by an oval depicting a ruined abbey and inscribed MUCKROSS, the interior with six mahogany-lined drawers, the frieze with one concave-fronted drawer, above a pair of recessed doors, enclosing five drawers and flanked by spirally-turned columns, with one side fitted drawer and on plinth base
27¼in. (69cm.) wide; 40½in. (103cm.) high; 25in. (64cm.) deep
Provenance
By repute, The Lords Castleross

Lot Essay

A davenport of this type is illustrated in D. Fitzgerald, Irish Furniture, Irish Heritage Series, Dublin, 1978, fig. 41. Another was offered anonymously, in these Rooms, 29 March 1984, lot 135.

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