Live Auction 7822Cabinet d'un Amateur Européen
Christie’s roundel
Lot 396

A REGENCY MAHOGANY FOUR-PEDESTAL DINING-TABLE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY IRISH, THE TOP REDUCED IN SIZE

Closed9 December 2009

Estimate

GBP 25,000–40,000

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY FOUR-PEDESTAL DINING-TABLE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY IRISH, THE TOP REDUCED IN SIZE
The rounded rectangular moulded top above ring-turned gadrooned baluster shafts, on foliate-headed downswept and reeded legs with brass paw feet, the underside of the tops and pedestals numbered '1' to '4', with two associated and one later leaf, the bearers and catch-handles moved
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high; 239½ in. (608 cm.) long, overall; 51¾ in. (131.5 cm.) wide; each leaf: 26¾ in. (68 cm.) wide (4)

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 15 November 1996, lot 105.

Specialist note

The table's robust urn-shaped pillars are enriched with Pan reed gadroons, as is the Grecian-scrolled claw. The latter's bacchic lion-paws relate to those of an Irish sideboard-table in Dublin Castle, which bears the trade label of the celebrated Dublin firm of Mack, Williams & Gibton (see A. Alexander, 'A Firm of Dublin Cabinet-Makers: Mack, Williams & Gibton', Irish Arts Review, 1995, p. 147, fig. 13).