Country House Collections at Slane Castle

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A BOULLE AND BRASS STANDISH, 19TH CENTURY, with two brass capped cut-glass inkwells, central carrying handle, frieze drawer and on brass ball feet, with a label "The Lord Chancellor's (First...

A BOULLE AND BRASS STANDISH, 19TH CENTURY, with two brass capped cut-glass inkwells, central carrying handle, frieze drawer and on brass ball feet, with a label "The Lord Chancellor's (First Lord Plunket born 1765) inkstand from Ballymascanlon". 32 x 26cm

Provenance: St Anne's, Clontarf

William Conyngham Plunket was a successful lawyer and occupied all the high offices, being Solicitor and Attorney General, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and in 1830, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He built Old Connaught, near Bray Co. Wicklow. Ballymascanlon came into the Plunket's possession through the marriage of his son Thomas to Louisa Foster.

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Hammer Price: €1,200

Estimate EUR : €1,000 - €1,500

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