A PAIR OF GEORGE IV BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SERVING TABLES
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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SERVING TABLES

IN THE MANNER OF GEORGE SMITH, THE TABLES CIRCA 1830, THE MONOPODIAE CIRCA 1825 AND ASSOCIATED

Closed16 December 2010

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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SERVING TABLES
IN THE MANNER OF GEORGE SMITH, THE TABLES CIRCA 1830, THE MONOPODIAE CIRCA 1825 AND ASSOCIATED
The rectangular tops with an acorn and oak leaf wreath mounted pediment back, above a plain frieze supported by simulated bronze lion monopodiae carved with water leaves and headed by floral cast-brass mounts
44 in. (112 cm.) high; 72½ in. (184 cm.) wide; 30½ in. (77.5 cm.) deep (2)

Specialist note

These temple pedimented sideboard tables are designed in the fashionable style promoted by George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration in 1808, pl. 93. A pedimented sideboard table, supplied to Lord Bellew for Jenkinstown, Co. Kilkenny by Mack, Williams & Gibton is illustrated in A. Alexander, 'A Firm of Dublin Cabinet-Makers: Mack, Williams & Gibton', The Irish Arts Review Yearbook, 1995, vol. II, p. 142, figs. 1 and 2).