Details
The upper cabinet with a broken swan-neck pediment, each side terminating with carved roses, over paneled doors opening to three adjustable shelves, above two drawers, upon a writing table with a mechanical document holder at its ratcheted top, the pull-out front drawer enclosing a baize-lined slide over a fitted interior, the pull-out section on cabriole legs with paw feet on brass castors, the fixed section on square legs
8614 in. (219.5 cm.) high, 3014 in. (77 cm.) wide, 20 in. (51 cm.) deep
Provenance
Acquired from O'Sullivan Antiques, New York, in 2003.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
D. Fitzgerald, The Knight of Glin and J. Peill, Irish Furniture: Woodwork and Carving in Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Act of Union, New York, 2007, pp. 52-53, figs. 48-52, p. 75, fig. 90.
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