MID-18TH CENTURY

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AN IRISH GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE
MID-18TH CENTURY
The original Breccia di Serravezza marble top above a Vitruvian scroll frieze and an acanthus-carved apron centred by a lion mask, on scrolled foliate legs with lion paw feet, the pine inner rails replaced
32 in. (81 cm.) high; 54 in. (137 cm.) wide; 33 in. (84 cm.) deep

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Sale room notice

The provenance for this table is;
By repute, Anthony Eden (d.1977).
With Lennox Money Antiques, London.
Price and Isobel H. Glover, New York (d.2001 and 2017 respectively).
Sold Sotheby’s, New York, 18 – 21 January 2018, lot 571.

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Lot Essay

This fine Irish mahogany table, with its profusely carved acanthus scrolls on the knees and squared-off paw feet, relates to a table in the collection at Malahide Castle, Co. Dublin, illustrated in The Knight of Glin, J. Peill, Irish Furniture, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 233, no. 117. Examples of Irish side tables with a naturalistic carved lion’s mask centring the apron rather than an idiosyncratic or fantastical animal mask are infrequent; another such table is featured in Irish Furniture, p. 226, no. 86. Irish tables with a carved Vitruvian scroll are scarcer still and include: a mahogany side table sold Sotheby’s, London, 8 July 1994, lot 70 (£62,000 including premium); a gilt-gesso and giltwood console table sold Christie’s, South Kensington, 23 January 2007, lot 226 (£72,000 inc. prem.), and another, formerly in the collection of Percival Griffiths, is illustrated in R.W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, London, 1929, p. 219, fig. 178.

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