AN IRISH REGENCY MAHOGANY DAYBED

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AN IRISH REGENCY MAHOGANY DAYBED
The shaped rising padded back, scrolled ends, bolster and seat-cushion covered in brown leather, the back with a gadrooned border, the front outlined by an eagle's head and neck to one end and a fish tail to the other, the centre of the seat-rail with foliage, on eagle legs and claw feet, with later sunk ceramic castors, with remains of a paper label to the seat for '..BUTLER LTD., /..TOR AND RESTORERER OF 'Chippendale' 'Adams' and 'Sheraton' Furniture etc... 127 & 128 UPPER ABBEY STREET, DUBLIN'

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The trade label of Butler of Upper Abbey Street, Dublin, which appears on this daybed, is listed in The Knight of Glin, 'Dublin Directories and Trade Labels', Furniture History, 1985, p.262. The Butler firm supplied a large quantity of the furniture to the 1st Earl of Iveagh (d.1927) for Elveden Hall, Sussex.