CIRCA 1830, POSSIBLY IRISH, IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAMS & GIBTON

Another rosewood centre table, attributed to Williams & Gibton and with related tripod base and vibrantly carved claw feet was sold Aynhoe Park; Christies, South Kensington, 9 October 2012, lot 274. Williams & Gibton was a highly successful Dublin firm of cabinet-makers and upholsterers founded by the partnership of John Mack, Zachariah Williams and William Gibton. 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 Offices, 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.