A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED SATINWOOD, AMARANTH, GREEN-STAINED, INLAID AND ENGRAVED CORNER CABINETS

A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED SATINWOOD, AMARANTH, GREEN-STAINED, INLAID AND ENGRAVED CORNER CABINETS
CIRCA 1775-80, AFTER DESIGNS BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE JUNIOR
Each crossbanded top inlaid and engraved with a shallow classical urn with a reeded body and anthemion finial, supported by a series of plinths, the lower plinth dispaying ram's masks with draped swags in their mouths and flanked by seated griffins, all draped with trailing husks and entwined with foliate scrolls, the frieze centred by an ormolu ram's head flanked by conforming trailing husks and scrolls above a pair of doors similarly decorated, on turned tapering fluted feet decorated with leaves and fluted collars
33 ¼ in. (84.5 cm.) high; 34 in. (86.5 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Provenance

Almost certainly commissioned by William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster (1749-1804), for the Gallery at Leinster House, Dublin, and thence by descent to
Augustus FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster (1791-1874), by whom removed to Carton House, Co. Kildare, following the sale of Leinster House to the Royal (Dublin) Society in 1815, and by descent to
Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster (1892-1976), by whom removed to Kilkea Castle when Carlton House was sold in 1946, and thereafter to Ramsden, Oxfordshire, and by descent.
Sold by the Trustees of the Leinster Will Trust; Cheffins, Cambridge, 19 September 2013, lot 894.

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