BY WILLIAMS AND GIBTON

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AN IRISH EARLY VICTORIAN OAK SOFA
By Williams and Gibton
The arched moulded toprail above a padded back, seat, arms and two bolster cushions covered in buttoned white leather, the shaped armrests above a seat-rail studded with paterae, on faceted turned legs with brass caps and castors, the upholstery distressed, stamped twice 'WILLIAMS & GIBTON 37917'
86 in. (218 cm.) wide

Provenance

Probably supplied for Clontarf Castle, Clontarf, Co. Dublin.

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Lot Essay

The partnership of John Mack, Zachariah Williams and William Gibton traded together from 1810 in Stafford Street, Dublin, until John Mack's death in 1829, when Williams and Gibton, the makers of this sofa, continued to work together until the death of Gibton in 1842. This sofa probably dates from the latter half of Williams and Gibton's partnership. It comes with an upholsterer's receipt for R. & E. Blair, dated 1934, which gives the owners name as a Mr. Dutton of Clontarf Castle, Co. Dublin. Clontarf was a Tudor-Revival house built in 1836 to designs by William Vitruvius Morrison and attached to an older tower house, so it is likely that this sofa formed part of the furnishings introduced to the house at that time.

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