AN IRISH GEORGE IV BURR-YEW AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE

POSSIBLY KILLARNEY

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AN IRISH GEORGE IV BURR-YEW AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE
Possibly Killarney
The circular crossbanded tilt-top with a border of entwined trailing oak leaves and acorns, with a bobbin-turned edge, above a plain frieze with smaller bobbin-turned moulding, on a square base with four cluster-column Gothic arches surrounding a concave-sided canted support with ribbon-tied oak-leaves and Gothic windows, on a concave-sided platform with conforming oak inlay, on scrolled feet with sunk brass castors, minor losses to the moulding and marquetry, with screwholes to the underside of the frieze

Lot Essay

Some of the marquetry foliage on the base of this table is similar to that found on Killarney work, naive elaborately-inlaid furniture and smaller items made for the tourist trade using bog oak, arbutus and other coloured woods. They often included pictorial views of local Killarney buildings and attractions (see B. Austen, Tunbridge Ware and Related European Decorative Woodwares, London, rev. ed., 1992, pp. 175-193).

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