Lot Essay
TABLE A
The marquetried and herm-legged pier table has an elliptical top, centred by a Palmyran sunflowered, scalloped and husk-enriched medallion. It is festooned with beribboned laurels within a golden ribbon-band wreathed with laurels, while beribboned laurels also festoon its palm-flowered frieze.
A pattern for such a table, with medallioned and segmental top, features in Thomas Malton's Compleat Treatise on Perspective, 2nd ed., 1778, pl. XXXIV. Such pier tables were also noted by the London-trained Dublin cabinet-maker William Moore (d. l815) in his 1782 advertisement of 'Inlaid Work' in the Dublin Evening Post, which announced 'Pier-Tables...just finished in the newest taste'.
A palm-flowered frieze, with the addition of urns, features on one of Moore's commodes acquired in l782 by William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Marquess of Titchfield, afterwards 3rd Duke of Portland (d. l809), who served as George III's Lord Lieutenant in Ireland. The palm and urn frieze also appears on a related commode acquired in l925 by the Victoria and Albert Museum (see D. Fitz-Gerald, Georgian Furniture, London, l969, no. l08).
Similar patterned tops feature on a herm-legged table with trompe l'oeil fluted frieze recorded in a private collection and also on a pair of tables, with giltwood frames, sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 5 July l991, lot 134.
TABLE B
The marquetried and herm-legged table has an elliptical top centred by a scalloped and husk-enriched medallion that is wreathed by beribboned shamrocks, the leaf adopted as a symbol of Irish Volunteers and in 1791 as the symbol of United Irishmen. The table frieze is inlaid with marble-like medallions such as feature on an elliptical pier table, that serves as a case for a pianoforte and bears the signature of the Dublin cabinet-maker and inlayer, William Moore (d. 1815), who from 1794 advertised himself as 'Cabinet and Piano-forte Maker' (see C. Musgrave, Adam and Hepplewhite Furniture, London, l966, fig. 170).
The marquetried and herm-legged pier table has an elliptical top, centred by a Palmyran sunflowered, scalloped and husk-enriched medallion. It is festooned with beribboned laurels within a golden ribbon-band wreathed with laurels, while beribboned laurels also festoon its palm-flowered frieze.
A pattern for such a table, with medallioned and segmental top, features in Thomas Malton's Compleat Treatise on Perspective, 2nd ed., 1778, pl. XXXIV. Such pier tables were also noted by the London-trained Dublin cabinet-maker William Moore (d. l815) in his 1782 advertisement of 'Inlaid Work' in the Dublin Evening Post, which announced 'Pier-Tables...just finished in the newest taste'.
A palm-flowered frieze, with the addition of urns, features on one of Moore's commodes acquired in l782 by William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Marquess of Titchfield, afterwards 3rd Duke of Portland (d. l809), who served as George III's Lord Lieutenant in Ireland. The palm and urn frieze also appears on a related commode acquired in l925 by the Victoria and Albert Museum (see D. Fitz-Gerald, Georgian Furniture, London, l969, no. l08).
Similar patterned tops feature on a herm-legged table with trompe l'oeil fluted frieze recorded in a private collection and also on a pair of tables, with giltwood frames, sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 5 July l991, lot 134.
TABLE B
The marquetried and herm-legged table has an elliptical top centred by a scalloped and husk-enriched medallion that is wreathed by beribboned shamrocks, the leaf adopted as a symbol of Irish Volunteers and in 1791 as the symbol of United Irishmen. The table frieze is inlaid with marble-like medallions such as feature on an elliptical pier table, that serves as a case for a pianoforte and bears the signature of the Dublin cabinet-maker and inlayer, William Moore (d. 1815), who from 1794 advertised himself as 'Cabinet and Piano-forte Maker' (see C. Musgrave, Adam and Hepplewhite Furniture, London, l966, fig. 170).