The cabinet has two banks of 15 graduated drawers, each with original turned wooden handles. In the centre are two large panelled doors with gild mouldings.
Made from beautifully figured Rosewood, in great condition and very slender to the wall.
Circa 1840
The jambs with tapering pilasters under Ionic capitals. A deep moulded edge shelf rests on a panelled frieze with bracket corbels.
Made at the end of the Victorian period.
Circa 1890
The fireplace features tall pilasters with scallop shell capitals, an arched opening with central keystone and a deep moulded edge shelf.
Made from beautifully figured book matched Bardiglio Seravezza marble.
Circa 1860
Exceptional quality, having very fine Rococo style castings and applied swags of fruit to each of the C scrolled side. The large centre cartouche which incorporates a clam shell, is in full relief.
Registered stamp on the back dates the fireplace to December 1854.
A beautifully drawn English Victoriana fireplace which features an arched opening, three quarter pillars and a substantial moulded mantlepiece. Made from well figured green Italian marble and in excellent condition.
Circa 1860
With moulded and canted consoles on raised plinths, supporting a serpentine shelf. A bullnose moulding frames the slightly arched opening.
Irish, circa 1830
Made in the English Regency style, the fireplace features beautiful book-matched Italian breccia marble panels, a carved classical urn centre plaque and a reeded edge mantel shelf.
Circa 1900
A design which clearly stood the test of time, ideal for both period and contemporary interiors.
Available made to measure and in a variety of materials.
The tables are made from richly coloured mahogany with fine inlaid boxwood stringing.
The ‘D’ shaped hinged tops rest on twin gate supports with square tapering legs.
A great looking and practical pair of tables in excellent condition.
Circa 1800
The beautifully figured and patinated serpentine moulded top, with canted corners above three serpentine drawers, each with gilded Rococo handles and escutcheons. The canted corners have carved blind-fret detailed decoration, these are raised on corner bracket feet.
Circa 1770
Produced in a softly coloured grey Italian marble with a hand waxed satin finish.
Suitable for both modern and traditional interiors.
The deep rectangular moulded shelf, rests on a frieze exquisitely carved with foliage, centred by a classical scene tablet. Each jamb has full length caryatids with capitals supporting the mantel.
This superbly carved, pure white statuary marble fireplace was produced in Rome, Italy, in the English Regency style for the British market. Roman sculpture, including fireplaces, were frequently purchased or made to order on the Grand Tour and brought to the British isles.
Circa 1820
Made from veined Carrara marble and white Statuary marble.
The centre plaque with a well carved mask of Apollo surrounded by a sunburst. The console jambs are under fluted corbels and a break-fronted mantel shelf.
Circa; 18th century
Apollo
The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognised as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Seen as the most beautiful god and the ideal of the Kouros (a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is considered to be the most important of all gods.
With tripartite Corinthian supports, stylised ram’s heads and cloven hoof feet on raised plinths.
20th century
With decorative frieze, claw feet and inset Cherry Griotte marble top.
Circa 1890
With fluted panels, twin corbels and a deep mantel shelf.
Circa 1900
Made in the late 19th century English Aesthetic Movement manner.
The table has a richly carved and pierced apron with vine motifs. The four cabriole legs terminate with ball and claw feet. An open shelf is positioned mid way down the table.
Circa 1890
The D-top pilasters and arch panels carved with flowering nasturtium’s.
Made from the finest and purest white Italian Statuary Carrara Marble.
Circa 1880
An elegant fireplace with full jamb length reeded and curved pilasters, moulded centre tablet and reeded edge mantelpiece.
Circa 1810
With movable canopy which slide up and down to close off the fire opening.
Circa 1900
Fully restored and complete with fire back and grate.
Circa 1880
The lightly veined grey marble complements the brightly coloured and finely cast ormolu mounts.
A very attractive antique French mantel.
French, circa 1860
With beautifully carved neo-classical panels and semi-precious Spanish Brocatelle marble inlays.
An exceptional Irish Georgian original by Dublin stone cutters George, Hill and Arthur Darley.
Circa 1790
The exquisitely carved centre tablet depicts Clio, the muse of epic poetry and history, in a reclining position with a globe under her left arm and an open book held in her right hand.
The pilasters and frieze panels with recessed panels and carved paterae in the centre.
A well proportioned fireplace with richly coloured semi-precious Sienna marble.
Circa 1790
In untouched original condition, both gilding and glass.
Circa 1770
Beautifully carved and highly detailed statue raised on a Panozza marble base.
Circa 1920’s
The arabesque fabric covered seats, backs and arms rests on four carved mahogany legs. The legs are scrolled shaped with acanthus and fish scale detail.
20th century.
seat height 18″ (457mm)
Dressed wearing a tradition roman toga.
Inscribed Fagan.SC, Wexford
Gilt-bronze mounted ebony and ebonised, cut-brass, pewter and faux tortoiseshell marquetry cabinets in the Boulle style. The rectangular top with brass mounted rim over decorated ormolu frieze above four reeded brass inlaid pillars with brass capitals, the exceptional centre door profusely decorated with ormolu scrolls and head mounts, flanked by two glazed doors decorated in red boulle and silver inlay, the interiors fitted with shelves, the base with four Bacchic masks terminating on turned tapering toupie ormolu mounted feet.
Paris, 1820
Provenance: Kilkenny Castle, Ireland. Purchased new by either, Walter Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormond, (2nd creation in the Irish Peerage, 1770-1820) or James Butler (1774-1838), 1st Marquess of Ormond in the UK Peerage.
Kilkenny Castle, Ireland was built in 1195 to control a fording-point of the River Nore and the junction of several route-ways. It was a symbol of Norman occupation and in its original thirteenth-century condition it would have formed an important element of the defences of the town with four large circular corner towers and a massive ditch, part of which can still be seen today on the Parade.
The Land War of the 1880’s began the demise of the great landed families of Ireland. By the 1930’s, the 6th Marquess of Ormond (1893-1971) gave in and the contents of Kilkenny Castle were dispersed in an eight day sale in November 1935 by Battersby’s of Dublin.
The offered cabinets had, by then, been moved to the Drawing Room from the Picture Gallery. They were described, Lot 311, as ‘Ebony and ormolu mounted three-door china cabinet. 2 Boule mounted glazed doors, Boule centre panel door. Satyr mask rams head and scroll decoration, lion’s masks, 4 fluted pillars on circular ormolu mounted feet’. Lot 312 ‘A similar lot’. There were also a number of other ‘Boule’ (sic) lots including a cabinet on stand 7 feet high as well as a lot of other French furniture.
The cabinets were sold separately and have recently been reunited.
The property was transferred to the people of Kilkenny in 1967 for £50 and the castle and grounds are now managed by the Office of Public Works.
The Butlers of Kilkenny Castle
One of the oldest of the French Norman families of Ireland, the Butlers of Kilkenny Castle were botillers to the King. They acquired enormous wealth and titles, including a Dukedom (of Ormonde). Their adherence to the Catholic faith and to the cause of James II did them no favours. They were attainted and their title of Earl of Ormonde was held in de jure name only. In 1791, John Butler (d.1795) conformed to the established Church of Ireland and he was confirmed as 17th. Earl of Ormond.
His son, Walter, succeeded as 18th. Earl but was created Marquess of Ormond. The estate was worth £22,000 a year in 1799 and in that same year he gave up the presage of wines that the family had held for centuries. The compensation from the government was £216,000 (£65,000,000 in today’s money). A friend of the Prince of Wales he had the wherewithal to keep up with him. After the Act of Union he acquired a town house requiring considerable expense on furniture and decoration. It would certainly have included some Boulle furniture. By the time of his death in 1820, he remained childless and had got through all his fortune. His Marquisate died with him. The estate was entailed on the next male heir and that, along with the fortune of his mother, went to his brother, James Wandesford Butler 19th. Earl of Ormond who was, subsequently created, 1st. Marquess of Ormond in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He also was a friend of the Prince of Wales. As Hereditary Chief Butler of Ireland, he officiated at the Coronation of George IV on the 19th. July 1821. It was one of the most splendid (and expensive) ever witnessed.
