Lot Essay
These distinctive console tables, carved in the form of naturalistic trees, belong to a select group of closely related tables derived from drawings by the celebrated designer and carver Thomas Johnson. Similar tree-form consoles appear in his Collection of Designs, 1758, figs. 71-75. Other tables in this group are in the collections of Lord Methuen, Corsham Court, Worcestershire and the Marquis of Waterford (illustrated in H. Hayward, World Furniture, 1965, fig. 501). Michael Taylor bought the eighteenth century table for Mrs. Dollar at the Luttrelstown house sale- the copy was subsequently made in his workshop