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AN IRISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY BOTTLE STAND
Lot 293 PROPERTY OF A LADY (LOTS 290 - 294)

AN IRISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY BOTTLE STAND

CIRCA 1760-70

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AN IRISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY BOTTLE STAND
CIRCA 1760-70
With eight divisions and a pierced handle on a moulded stand centred on each long side by a shell and with foliate cabriole legs with facetted pad feet, one shell replaced
23 ½ in. (60 cm.) high; 25 in. (64 cm.) wide; 14 ½ in. (37 cm.) deep

The Leidsdorf Collection, sold Sotheby's, 28 June 1974, lot 48.

Specialist note

Related decanter stands are illustrated in The Knight of Glin and James Peill, Irish Furniture, New Haven & London, 2007, p.116, fig.154, and p.246, figs.178 and 179. Another (ibid. p.246, fig. 176) was in the important collection of Samuel Messer, sold Christie's, London, 5 December 1991, lot 103 (£9,350 incl' premium).