AN IRISH GEORGE II PINE AND OAK SIDE TABLE, the Siena marble top inset in a black marble surround with thumb moulded rim, above an egg and dart frieze, centred by a well carved lion mask with...

AN IRISH GEORGE II PINE AND OAK SIDE TABLE, the Siena marble top inset in a black marble surround with thumb moulded rim, above an egg and dart frieze, centred by a well carved lion mask with flowing mane, the legs carved with acanthus leaves and scrolls on rectangular tapering panels and terminating in paw feet 85cm high x 139cm wide x 79cm deep Provenance: Formerly in Drumcondra House, Dublin - home to Sir Marmaduke Coghill (d.1738). Drumcondra House was designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce (c.1699-1733) and built between 1726 and 1727. Coghill was at various stages Privy Councillor, Chancellor of the Exchequer and representative in the Irish Parliament. He died, unmarried, in 1738 and left the house to his spinster sister, Mary, who died in 1755. She in turn bequeathed Drumcondra House to her sister Hester, later Countess of Charleville. This table was most likely originally painted black, and is similar in design to a table illustrated in A History of Irish Furniture, The Knight of Glin and James Peill, page 65. That table sold in these rooms, 1992 (see also catalogue no. 63 & 64 of the same publication). There is a drawing of a table with similar characteristics to the present one, by Pearce in an album of his furniture designs at Elton Hall, Cambridgeshire, illus. fig. 71 in Glin and Peill.

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