The later rectangular vert de mer marble top above a moulded frieze carved with foliate vitruvian scroll motif, the pierced shaped apron centred by a lion mask flanked by shells and issuing foliate garlands, the side aprons centred by a shell above foliate swags, on cabriole legs headed by large acanthus leaves and terminating in paw feet, the reverse of the frieze with chalk inscription 'KILLINEY', the cavetto moulding above the frieze probably added in the early 19th century to accomodate the existing marble top, regilt
33¹⁄₂ in. (85 cm.) high; 52 in. (132 cm.) wide; 25 in. (63.5 cm.) deep

Probably Alicia Warren née Cusack (1797-1879), Killiney Castle, County Dublin, by the mid-19th century;
by descent to the Cusack family, Abbeville, County Dublin;
Robert Cusack-Jobson Esq., Old Glebe, New Castle, County Dublin;
thence by descent to the present owner.

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The frame of this impressive table, wreathed by Vitruvian wave-scrolls and hung with garlands of flowers centred by a lion's mask with wild mane is remarkably similar to a table that appears on the Trade Card of William Wilkinson of Chequer Lane, Dublin, presumably the same man as William Wilkinson, carver and gilder, recorded in Dublin Directories in Chequer Lane, 1761-1774 and at 34, Exchange Street, 1775-1784.

Reflecting the type of George II Roman sideboard-table patterns illustrated in William Jones' The Gentleman or Builder's Companion, 1739 and J. Vardy's Some Designs of Mr Inigo Jones and Mr. William Kent, 1744 this table relates to a pair of related tables with lacquer tops is illustrated in G. A. Kenyon, The Irish Furniture at Malahide Castle, 1994, p. 33, a table sold Christie's, South Kensignton, 24 January 2007, lot 226, and a table illustrated Peill and Glin Irish Furniture fig. 147 p. 113.

The inscription 'KILLINEY' on the present table indicates that it was at some point in Killiney Castle, County Dublin. The castle was acquired by Robert Warren (1787-1894) in 1834 and enlarged in neo-gothic style. Warren was married to Alicia Cusack (1797-1871), of the Cusack family of Abbeville, County Dublin and by the 20th century the console table was in the ownership of the Cusack family at Abbeville, the descendants of Alicia's brother. In the late 20th and early 21st century it belonged to Ralph Cusack-Jobson, a renowned collector and connoisseur of Irish furniture.