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AN IRISH GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD DOUBLE-SIDED BOOKSTAND
Lot 231

AN IRISH GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD DOUBLE-SIDED BOOKSTAND

BY WILLIAMS & GIBTON, CIRCA 1830

Closed2 July 2014

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GBP 2,000

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AN IRISH GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD DOUBLE-SIDED BOOKSTAND
BY WILLIAMS & GIBTON, CIRCA 1830
With frieze drawer above two shelves between ring-turned uprights with spindle-filled ends, on castors, stamped ‘16052/WILLIAMS/& GIBTON’
30 ¾ in. (78 cm.) high; 25 7/8 in. (66 cm.) wide; 15 ¼ in. (38.5 cm.) deep

Specialist note

Williams & Gibton, active between 1830 and 1844, evolved from the earlier Dublin firm of Mack, Williams and Gibton, of 39, Stafford Street, Dublin, who were recorded as 'Upholders to ... His Majesty's Board of Work'. Some early pieces exist with a trade label of Mack, Williams and Gibton including a Regency rosewood lyre-supported writing-table, illustrated in Claxton-Stevens and Whittington, Eighteenth Century English Furniture in the Norman Adams Collection, London, 1983, p. 169. Stamped furniture of a slightly later date is less rare (The Knight of Glin, 'Dublin Directories and Trade Labels', Furniture History, 1985, p. 270).