AN IRISH MAHOGANY INVERTED-BREAKFRONT SERVING-TABLE
Lot 349

AN IRISH MAHOGANY INVERTED-BREAKFRONT SERVING-TABLE

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed23 March 2017

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GBP 4,375

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AN IRISH MAHOGANY INVERTED-BREAKFRONT SERVING-TABLE
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Surmounted by a brass gallery and stepped plate rail, the top above a Greek key frieze on scroll supports, back legs possibly later
57 ¾ in. (146.5 cm.) high; 120 in. (305.5 cm.) wide; 33 ½ in. (85 cm.) deep

By repute removed from a house in Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland.
A House on the Wiltshire Downs; sold Christie's, London, 6 March 2008, lot 96.

Specialist note

The celebrated Dublin firm established in Stafford Street in 1810 by John Mack, Zachariah Williams and William Gibton, furnished Dublin Castle with a sideboard, whose related plate-railed top projected at the ends and was supported on paired and paw-footed truss pilasters. Their brand features on another table, whose projecting ends are supported on similarly trellised and paw-footed pilasters that are wrapped by Roman acanthus instead of oak (see A. Alexander, 'A Firm of Dublin Cabinet-makers, Mack, Williams & Gibton', Irish Arts Review Yearbook, vol. II, 1995, pp. 146-147, fig. I; and a table sold at Christie's, London, 5 April 2001, lot 243).