CIRCA 1760

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A PAIR OF IRISH EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE TABLES
Circa 1760
Each with a later moulded rectangular top above a plain frieze and acanthus-carved deep apron with diaper-pattern ground and centred by a shell, on cabriole legs headed by strapwork and foliage, on scroll feet, one with printed C.I.E. storage label, restorations to the surface
32¼ in. (82 cm.) high; 46¼ in. (117.5 cm.) wide; 26½ in. (67 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Colonel H.H. Mulliner (d. 1924)
Almost certainly bought circa 1907 by Sir William Hutcheson-Poë, Bt. for Heywood, Co. Laois, and by descent to his wife
The late Lady Hutcheson-Poë, Batchwood Hall, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, offered Christie's London, 26 July 1934, lot 115 ('A pair of Chippendale Mahogany side tables, with plain friezes and deep aprons carved with acanthus foliage centring on escallop shells on an incised trellis ground, supported on slightly cabriole legs carved at the knees with strapwork, terminating in scroll feet, 48 in. wide').

Literature

P. Macquoid, The Age Of Mahogany, London, 1906, p. 228, fig. 208 (when in the Mulliner collection).
The Georgian Society Records, Dublin, 1913, pl. LXXVII (illustrated in situ in the Dining-Room at Heywood).
F. Lenygon, Furniture in England from 1660-1760, London, circa, 1914, fig. 217 (when in the Hutcheson-Poë collection).
'Heywood, Queen's County', Country Life, 11 January 1919, p. 45.
M. Bence-Jones, Burke's Guide to Country Houses, vol. I (Ireland), London, 1978, p. 152 (same Georgian Society Records photograph of the dining-room).
S. O'Reilly, Irish Houses and Gardens, London, 1998, p. 13 (illustrated in situ in the Dining-Room at Heywood).

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Lot Essay

This pair of side tables, with their characteristically Irish deep apron with diaper-patterned trellis ground, were almost certainly introduced to Heywood, Co. Laois by Sir William Hutcheson Poë, Bt. They were photographed in situ in 1913 for the Georgian Society Records and again for Country Life in the dining-room, described by Mark Bence-Jones as 'one of the most accomplished interiors of the Adam period in Ireland'. Heywood was built in the early 1770s by Michael Trench and had descended to Sir William's wife. They employed Sir Edwin Lutyens to remodel the gardens from around 1906.

A closely related side table, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Ref. 14.58.31), is illustrated in P. Macquoid, The Age of Mahogany, London, 1906, p. 228, fig. 209 (illustrated below the present lot).

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