This George II carved Irish pier table made 90,000 at Adams.
This c1740 George II Irish carved giltwood and gesso rectangular pier table sold for a hammer price of 90,000 at the James Adam Country House Collections auction at Slane Castle on Monday. This one has a later breccia marble top above a frieze with tongue and dart border, ribbon tied knots and a lion mask.
An illustration of one of a pair of very similar tables, also c1740, is contained in Glin and Piell’s Irish Furniture published by Yale University Press. That pair, which is slightly smaller than this table, was supplied to Malahide Castle.
Turner’s Clontarf Castle
The only recorded Irish view by Joseph Mallord William Turner – Clontarf Castle in Co. Dublin – made a hammer price of 65,000 over an estimate of 20,000-40,000.