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AN IRISH GEORGE II MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY CONSOLE TABLE

CIRCA 1730

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AN IRISH GEORGE II MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY CONSOLE TABLE
CIRCA 1730
The white marble top above a moulded apron inlaid with a shell, on cabriole legs and faceted pad feet, the back rail replaced
33½ in. (85 cm.) high; 36½ in. (93 cm.) wide; 20¾ in. (53 cm.) deep
出版
The Knight of Glin and James Peill, 'A Newly Discovered Signature on an Irish Piece of Furniture', Antiques, October 2008, pp. 140-145
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The marble-slabs' pier-table frame is conceived in the George II Roman or picturesque fashion considered appropriate for sideboard-tables. Evoking a celebrated quote about the nature-deity Venus by the Roman poet Terence, its triumphal arched frieze displays a golden Venus shell badge inlaid in French-fashion. The leg pattern relates to contemporary India-back parlour chairs supplied to Dublin's St. Stevens' Hospital (Glin & Peill, Irish Furniture, 2007, fig.36). The inlay can also be compared to that found on a Dublin-manufactured cabinet in the Art Institute in Chicago, bearing the date 1732 alongside the makers signature John Kirchoffer. There is a possibility that this is the journeyman's signature of the John Kirckoffer, who was later listed as a cabinet-maker in the 1740s with premises in Dublin's Marlborough Street.