Royal and Noble
Royal and Noble
KILLADOON HOUSE, PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT IRISH ESTATE
A SET OF EIGHT IRISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS, LATE 18TH CENTURY/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Auction Closed
January 21, 06:17 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
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KILLADOON HOUSE, PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT IRISH ESTATE
A SET OF EIGHT IRISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS, LATE 18TH CENTURY/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
with tapered scrolled backs, panelled and painted with the Clements family crest, the panelled and scrolled seat on X-frame supports with paw feet, one chair lacking a back leg
Probably supplied to Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim (1732-1804)
Inventory, 26th September 1807, ‘8 Mahogany chairs with crest painted’ in the Entrance Hall;
Inventory, 10th February 1812, ‘Eight Hall Chairs’ in the Entrance Hall;
Inventory, April 1830, ‘Eight Hall Chairs’ in the Entrance Hall;
Inventory, 27th June 1836, ‘Eight mahogany Grecian Hall chairs Lord Leitrim’s crest and coronet painted upon each’ in the Entrance Hall;
John Cornforth, 'Killadoon, Co Kildare - I', Country Life, 15 January 2004, p. 48, fig. 3;
The Knight of Glin and James Peill, Irish Furniture, Yale, 2007, p. 185, fig. 249;
The Knight of Glin and James Peill, The Irish Country House, China, 2010, pp. 138, 140-141.
Emblazoned with the Clements family crest, this set of hall chairs was probably supplied to Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim (1732-1804) shortly after the creation of his Earldom in 1795. Clearly influenced by the output of Thomas Hope, with their exaggerated scrolled backs, cross-frame legs and hairy lion-paw feet, the form would have appealed to the antiquarian sensibilities of Robert Clements who undertook his first Grand Tour in 1753-54.