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    9 March 2000

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    • AN IRISH GEORGE IV MAHOGANY SI
    Lot 45

    AN IRISH GEORGE IV MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD

    Price realised

    GBP 5,750

    Estimate

    GBP 4,000 - GBP 6,000

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    AN IRISH GEORGE IV MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD
    The gallery with bead-and-reel moulding and anthemions to each end, above a shaped, eared top with gadrooned and leaf moulding, the frieze with projecting patera and centred by a wreathed quatrefoil, on acanthus-wrapped cabriole legs and paw feet with circular plinths and castors, reduced in size and with associated replacements to the frame, restorations to the top
    46¼ in. (117.5 cm.) high; 97 in. (246.5 cm.) wide; 23¼ in. (59 cm.) deep

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    Lot Essay

    A related serving-table by Gillingtons of Dublin, with lion-monopodia emerging from acanthus-wrapped volutes in the Roman style, was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 6 February 1997, lot 210. Another serving-table with a similar pedimented gallery, bears the trade label of the Dublin partnership of Mack, Williams and Gibton and was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 21 April 1994, lot 136.

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