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Lot Essay
The Butlers were one of the leading Irish families, whose chief seat was Kilkenny Castle, Co. Kilkenny, owned by them from 1391 until 1967. The contents of Kilkenny Castle were sold by the Marquess of Ormonde, Battersby & Co. Auctioneers, Dublin, Kilkenny Castle house sale catalogue, 18-28 November 1935.
Solomon Gubbay was a rope and jute merchant who travelled extensively and lived in America in the 1920s. His cousin, David Gubbay and his wife Hannah, bequeathed their impressive collection of furniture and porcelain to the National Trust in 1968, and it is now displayed at Clandon Park, Surrey.
Solomon Gubbay began collecting circa 1930 and his eclectic taste clearly shows from the pieces of furniture sold from his collection in these Rooms. For example: a George II blue-painted dresser (lot 196, 14 May 1992); a George II rolled paper mirror and pair of console tables en suite (lots 213 and 214, 6 April 1995); a George IV red-painted and simulated bamboo cabinet-on-stand and a William and Mary burr-elm chest (lots 83 and 84, 18 April 1996) and an Irish George II mahogany bureau-on-stand, (lot 78, 17 April 1997). Several piees of brass-inlaid mahogany and padouk furniture from his collection have also been sold recently including a George II brass-inlaid padouk tripod table, sold Christie's, London, 27 November 2003, lot 5 (£139,650).
Battersby & Co. Auctioneers, Dublin, Kilkenny Castle house sale catalogue, 18-28 November 1935
Solomon Gubbay was a rope and jute merchant who travelled extensively and lived in America in the 1920s. His cousin, David Gubbay and his wife Hannah, bequeathed their impressive collection of furniture and porcelain to the National Trust in 1968, and it is now displayed at Clandon Park, Surrey.
Solomon Gubbay began collecting circa 1930 and his eclectic taste clearly shows from the pieces of furniture sold from his collection in these Rooms. For example: a George II blue-painted dresser (lot 196, 14 May 1992); a George II rolled paper mirror and pair of console tables en suite (lots 213 and 214, 6 April 1995); a George IV red-painted and simulated bamboo cabinet-on-stand and a William and Mary burr-elm chest (lots 83 and 84, 18 April 1996) and an Irish George II mahogany bureau-on-stand, (lot 78, 17 April 1997). Several piees of brass-inlaid mahogany and padouk furniture from his collection have also been sold recently including a George II brass-inlaid padouk tripod table, sold Christie's, London, 27 November 2003, lot 5 (£139,650).
Battersby & Co. Auctioneers, Dublin, Kilkenny Castle house sale catalogue, 18-28 November 1935