ALMOST CERTAINLY BY WILLIAMS & GIBTON, CIRCA 1835

The Dublin firm of cabinet-makers and upholsterers founded by the partnership of John Mack, Zachariah Williams and William Gibton was highly successful. The firm held a court appointment as 'Upholders' to the King's Architectural Board of Works and were supplying and restoring furniture for some of the most important public buildings in Ireland, including Dublin Castle, the Four Courts, the War Office, the Barracks Office, the Treasury and the Viceregal Lodge. They traded together from 1810 in Stafford Street, Dublin until John Mack's death in 1829, when Williams and Gibton continued to work together until the death of Gibton in 1842. A similar table was sold Sotheby's New York, 30 April 2003, lot 731.