The top inlaid with a fan paterae and broad satinwood border with ribbon-tied husk garlands and classical urn decorations, over a fluted frieze with a beaded edge raised on ring-turned and fluted tapering legs headed with sunflowers, the back with Stair & Co. inventory sticker 0525, a yellow inventory number 8293-85, and remnants of an old partially torn label printed MAPLES DEPOSITORY and inscribed London(?)
31¹⁄₂ in. (80 cm.) high, 37¹⁄₄ in. (94.6 cm.) wide, 17 in. (43.2 cm.) deep

Diswellstown House, Consilla, Co. Dublin.
With Stair & Company, London.
The Property of a Gentleman; Christie's, London, 17 November 1983, lot 146.
Acquired from Hyde Park Antiques, New York.

P. Broome, The Hyde Park Collection: 1965-1990, The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album, 1989, pp. 222-223.

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This gilded and marquetry side table, or pier table, was originally intended to accompany a window-pier in the George III 'Roman' fashion which was popularized during the 1770s by the architectural essays of the Rome-trained court architect Robert Adam (d. 1796). The elliptical 'Roman-medallion' top is bordered with laurelled and palm-flowered sacred urns that recall Adam's 'Etruscan' fashion. The overall design is reminiscent of a commode by the London-trained Dublin cabinet-maker and inlayer William Moore, which was supplied to the 3rd Duke of Portland in 1782 (see: The Knight of Glin and James Peill, Irish Furniture, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 163, fig. 220).

A nearly identical pair of tables, also formerly with Stair & Company were sold from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Max M. Fisher, Sotheby's, New York, 21-22 April 1995, lot 260.