Lot 47
47
A GEORGE IV BRASS-INLAID AND MOUNTED ROSEWOOD, SIMULATED- ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT CENTRE TABLE
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A GEORGE IV BRASS-INLAID AND MOUNTED ROSEWOOD, SIMULATED- ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT CENTRE TABLE

POSSIBLY IRISH

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A GEORGE IV BRASS-INLAID AND MOUNTED ROSEWOOD, SIMULATED- ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT CENTRE TABLE
Possibly Irish
The circular crossbanded and tilt-top inlaid with myrtle trails and ebonised lines, above a moulded and plain frieze, on a spreading shaft with gadrooned and palm-wrapped base and with scrolled corbel angles, on a concave-sided square plinth with winged paw feet on plinths with countersunk brass castors
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high; 60 in. (152.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
John Kinahan, Esq. (1866-1955), Lowwood House, Belfast and by descent.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

The circular 'loo' or games-table is designed en suite with the sofa-table (see note to next lot). With its palm-wrapped pillar on hollow-sided 'altar' plinth, it relates to patterns for 'Pillar and Claw Tables' in George Smith's, Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, 1808, (pl. 69).

This table and the next lot both come from the same house in Ireland. One of the greatest suites of early 19th Century furniture is also found in an Irish house - that at Castle Coole, Co. Fermanagh. The Castle Coole furniture was supplied under the direction of the Dublin upholsterers, John and Nathaniel Preston for the 2nd Earl of Belmore (see H. Montgomery-Massingberd and C. Simon Sykes, Great Houses of Ireland, London, 1999, pp. 230 and 241).

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