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Lot Essay
The table displays features associated with the Dublin cabinet-maker and marqueteur William Moore (d.1814) who served his apprenticeship with the London makers Messrs. Mayhew & Ince of Golden Square before establishing his own workshop on Abbey Street around 1782.
In addition to the shaded fan patera that centres the table top, the frieze displays simulated or `finger-flutes' while the legs are inlaid with swags suspended from diminutive flowerheads, all features seen on pier tables associated with Moore. Interestingly the oval panels to the tops of the legs are inlaid in yewwood, a timber that was used to dramatic effect by Mayhew & Ince, and may well have been adopted by Moore.
Related pier tables are in the National Museum of Ireland (see Rosemary Luddy, "Every Article in the Inlaid Way" The Furniture of William Moore', Irish Arts Review, 2002, pp. 45 - 54,) and in private collections, another was sold by The Earl of Iveagh, Christie's, Elveden Hall house sale, 21 - 24 May 1984, lot 774 (£6,480 including premium)
See also lots 563, 600 and 679
In addition to the shaded fan patera that centres the table top, the frieze displays simulated or `finger-flutes' while the legs are inlaid with swags suspended from diminutive flowerheads, all features seen on pier tables associated with Moore. Interestingly the oval panels to the tops of the legs are inlaid in yewwood, a timber that was used to dramatic effect by Mayhew & Ince, and may well have been adopted by Moore.
Related pier tables are in the National Museum of Ireland (see Rosemary Luddy, "Every Article in the Inlaid Way" The Furniture of William Moore', Irish Arts Review, 2002, pp. 45 - 54,) and in private collections, another was sold by The Earl of Iveagh, Christie's, Elveden Hall house sale, 21 - 24 May 1984, lot 774 (£6,480 including premium)
See also lots 563, 600 and 679