EARLY 19TH CENTURY, TOP AND BASE ASSOCIATED

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AN IRISH REGENCY MAHOGANY BREAKFAST-TABLE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, TOP AND BASE ASSOCIATED
The circular tilt-top above a plain frieze with reel-carved lower edge, on a baluster shaft and hipped cabriole legs headed by lotus-leaves, with brass caps and castors, repaired crack to one leg, restorations to the top
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high; 62 in. (157.5 cm.) diameter

來源

Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh, K.G. (1874-1967), Pyrford Court, Woking, Surrey.

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

Pyrford Court was built in a Georgian style in 1906 by the architect Clyde Young for the Hon. Rupert Guinness, later 2nd Earl of Iveagh, K.G. to his own designs. His thirty-five years at the helm of Guinness saw him take the firm from a private, family-owned company to a multinational concern with wide-ranging interests. He was deeply fascinated by agriculture, in particular in the cultivation of five thousand acres of farm land at Elveden in Norfolk. He kept a herd of cows at Pyrford which he used for testing his pioneering research in his campaign for clean milk, leading to a reduction in bovine tuberculosis in children.

The contents of Pyrford Court were sold by Christie's at a house sale there on 4-5 June 1968 but the present table does not feature in that sale catalogue.
See also lot 224 for a bureau plat with Guinness family provenance.