Live Auction 8012Lyons Demesne Works of Art from The Collection of The Late Dr. Tony Ryan
AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD SPECIMEN MARBLE TABLE TOP ON AN IRISH VICTORIAN GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION BASE
Lot 141

AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD SPECIMEN MARBLE TABLE TOP ON AN IRISH VICTORIAN GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION BASE

THE TOP CIRCA 1820-40, THE BASE CIRCA 1840-60

Closed14 July 2011

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GBP 10,000

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AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD SPECIMEN MARBLE TABLE TOP ON AN IRISH VICTORIAN GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION BASE
THE TOP CIRCA 1820-40, THE BASE CIRCA 1840-60
The rectangular top inlaid in a lozenge trellis with various stones including porphyry, lapis lazuli, agates, jaspers and fossil marbles, in a malachite border, a Greek key band of Siena and red marble, a border of verde antico and a white marble edge, over a foliate-carved panelled frieze centred by a coat-of-arms, on patera-headed panelled square tapering legs and block feet, re-decorated, the top extended, previously with further feet
32¼ in. (81.5 cm.) high; 60 in. (152.5 cm.) wide; 33 1/8 in. (84 cm.) deep

John Prendergast Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort (1790-1865), East Cowes Castle, and by descent.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 7 July 2000, lot 42.

Specialist note

The arms are those of Vereker impaling O'Grady for John, 3rd Viscount Gort and his wife Maria (d. 1854), daughter of the 1st Viscount Guillamore, whom he married in 1814. Viscount Gort was Tory M.P. for Limerick from 1817-20, later becoming Mayor of Limerick in 1831. The pair to this table, identical but for a slightly different inlaid border to its specimen marble top and retaining the lower sections to the feet, was sold from Nantlys, Wales, Christie's Gyrn Castle house sale, 18 July 2006, lot 525 (£33,600).