Lot 46
An Irish George III mahogany side table with key pattern frieze
11 March 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£15,000 - £20,000
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An Irish George III mahogany side table with key pattern frieze
The gadroon-moulded rectangular top above a key-pattern frieze and chamfered square legs carved to the front with blind 'Chinese' fretwork headed by foliate carved ear brackets, 167cm wide, 78cm deep, 79cm high (65 1/2in wide, 30 1/2in deep, 31in high).
Footnotes
A pair of side tables with moulded mahogany tops above key-pattern friezes, on blind fret carved legs were supplied by Thomas Cobbe (1733-1814) for Newbridge House, Co. Dublin, circa 1760. Bills amounting to £200 paid to Hearn in 1760 indicate that the cabinet-maker must have been responsible for much of the furnishing of the house possibly including the side tables (see The Knight of Glinn and James Peill, Irish Furniture, 2007, p. 118, pl. 159). The presence of the mahogany top with moulded edge as opposed to a marble top and the identical pattern of fretwork to the legs on the offered lot strongly support the Irish attribution here.
Another related George III mahogany side-table featuring a key pattern frieze was supplied by William Masters in 1753 to The Duke of Atholl, Blair Castle, Perthshire (See Anthony Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, 1968, pl. 401). A pair of marble top side table of a similar pattern, with provenance from The Earls of Haddington, Tyninghame, East Lothian, sold Sotheby's London 19 November 1993 lot 76.