A PAIR OF IRISH GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CONSOLE TABLES
Lot 18

A PAIR OF IRISH GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CONSOLE TABLES

BY WILLIAMS AND GIBTON, CIRCA 1830

Closed19 October 2023

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A PAIR OF IRISH GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CONSOLE TABLES
BY WILLIAMS AND GIBTON, CIRCA 1830
Each rectangular top with lotus carved edge and supported by fluted engaged Ionic columns, each stamped 25303 / Williams / & Gibton on opposite outer rear supports, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty label
36 ¾ in. (93.3 cm.) high, 64 in. (162.5 cm.) wide, 24 ¼ in. (61.6 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 23 November 2005, lot 119.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

Specialist note


The partnership of John Mack, Zachariah Williams, and William Gibton traded together from 1810 in Stafford Street, Dublin until John Mack's death in 1829, when Williams and Gibton continued to work together until the death of Gibton in 1842.

A pair of related fluted columnar pier tables, bearing the trade label of Mack, Williams and Gibton and stamped 'D2583', are illustrated in A. Alexander, 'A Firm of Dublin Cabinet-Makers Mack, Williams & Gibton', Irish Arts Review Yearbook, vol. II, 1995, pp. 146-147, figs. 10 and 11. They also share the beed-and-reel enriched frieze and rectangular pilasters to the reverse, a favoured motif of the firm between 1829 and 1842, also seen on the great dining-room serving-table and hall table at Dublin Castle which date from earlier in the partnership (ibid., figs. 12 and 13).