A PAIR OF IRISH GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD SIDE CABINETS, CIRCA 1825, ATTRIBUTED TO MACK, WILLIAMS & GIBTON

UK: Greenford Park WarehouseRestricted Species

Auction Closed

January 21, 06:17 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

KILLADOON HOUSE, PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT IRISH ESTATE

A PAIR OF IRISH GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD SIDE CABINETS, CIRCA 1825, ATTRIBUTED TO MACK, WILLIAMS & GIBTON

the breakfront white moulded marble top above a conforming frieze with glazed doors divided by twist turned pillars with leaf carved collars on a plinth base

95.5cm. high, 166cm. wide, 45cm. deep; 3ft. 1¾in., 5ft. 5¼in., 1ft 5¾in.

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Probably supplied to Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim, KP PC (Ire) (1768-1854)

Inventory, 10th February 1812 (manuscript addition 1829), 'Two Commodes Rosewood, marble tops, Plate Glass doors' in the Drawing Room;

Inventory, April 1830, 'Two commodes Rosewood with Marble Tops and Plate Glass doors 3 divisions each - key in each bookcase' in Drawing Room;

Inventory, 27th June 1836, 'Two rosewood commodes with marble slabs and plate glass doors, with locks and key to each, fitted up in three compartments each for books' in the Drawing Room;

John Cornforth, 'Killadoon, Co Kildare - I', Country Life, 15 January 2004, p. 47;

The Knight of Glin and James Peill, Irish Furniture, Yale, 2007, p.184-5, fig. 247;

The Knight of Glin and James Peill, The Irish Country House, China, 2010, p. 143.