AN IRISH REGENCY MAHOGANY FIVE PEDESTAL DINING-TABLE

Lot 105
09.02.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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ID 892408
Lot 105 | AN IRISH REGENCY MAHOGANY FIVE PEDESTAL DINING-TABLE
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 90 000
AN IRISH REGENCY MAHOGANY FIVE PEDESTAL DINING-TABLE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

With rounded rectangular top, the pedestals with turned reeded baluster shaft above, four with three reeded tapering squared legs, the central pedestal with four conforming legs, terminating in later brass caps and castors; together with four later leaves, restorations, the edge of the top later reeded, one leg later to the central pedestal possibly originally with three legs and with consequential restorations to the column

29 in. (74 cm.) high; 56 7/8 in. (144.5 cm.) wide 175 1/2 in. long, excluding leaves, 271 3/4 in. (690.5 cm.) long, including leaves





Provenance

Probably acquired by Richard White, 1st Earl of Bantry (d. 1851) or his son, Viscount Berehaven, later 2nd Earl of Bantry (1800-1868), Bantry House, Co. Cork, by descent at Bantry. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 June 2006, lot 45 (£96,000).



Literature

D. Guinness & W. Ryan, Irish houses & castles, New York, 1971, p. 68.

J. Cornforth, 'Bantry House, County Cork - II', Country Life, 3 August 1989, p. 58, fig. 1.

J. O'Brien & D. Guinness, Great Irish Houses & Castles, New York, 1992, p. 94.

H. Montgomery-Massingberd & C. Simon Sykes, Great Houses of Ireland, London, 1999, p. 184.



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