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  • 18TH CENTURY IRISH HUNT TABLE WITH LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS

    This 18th century hunt table originally from Coole Park is at de Veres. (Click on image to enlarge).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 4,000.

    The 18th century Irish mahogany hunt table illustrated on the left has literary associations. It is from Coole Park, home to the dramatist and folklorist Lady Augusta Gregory. She co-founded the Abbey Theatre with the Nobel prize winning poet William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn of Tulira Castle. In the early 20th century the Co. Galway house was at the centre of the Irish Literary Revival. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, John Millington Synge and Sean O’ Casey all visited.

    The hunt table, which is at de Veres Interiors Auction at the Pavilion, Leopardstown Racecourse on October 21, was purchased at the Coole Park auction in 1932 by Mrs. Christina O’Malley of Barna House, Co. Galway. The house at Coole Park no longer stands.  The table is estimated at 4,000-6,000.
    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for October 17, 2012.)

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