An Irish George II Mahogany Console Table, mid-18th Century
No reserve
Auction Closed
October 15, 06:30 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
the frieze carved with scrolling foliage and centred by a satyr's mask; the cabriole legs carved with eagle heads at the knees and terminating in claw-and-ball feet; previously with a mahogany top and now with a later green breccia marble slab
height 31 in.; width 55 1/2 in.; depth 25 1/2 in,
79 cm; 141 cm; 65 cm
Sheffield Park, East Sussex;
Private Collection, West of England;
Phillips London, 12 October 1999, lot 17;
Bonham's London, 4 November 2015, lot 164.
First mentioned in the Domesday Book, the estate and Tudor mansion Sheffield Park in East Sussex was acquired in 1769 by the Anglo-Irish soldier and politician John Baker Holroyd (1735-1821), created Baron Sheffield in 1781 and Earl Sheffield in 1816 in the Peerage of Ireland. Holroyd commissioned the architect James Wyatt to refurbish the house in the Georgian Gothick style and engaged Capability Brown and Humphrey Repton to re-design the gardens and parkland. Following the death of the 3rd Earl of Sheffield without an heir in 1909, the estate was sold to Arthur Gilstrap Soames (1854–1934), whose family sold the house and grounds to private developers who divided up the estate in 1953, with the historic gardens passing into the ownership of the National Trust.
