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A REGENCY IVORY-MOUNTED PADOUK AND INDIAN ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE CIRCA 1800-10 The rounded rectangular twin-flap top above two part cedar-lined frieze drawers with boxwood stringing and opposing false drawers, each with brass lion's mask handles, the end standards with turned balusters mounted on ivory balls, on sabre legs with brass caps and castors 28 ? in. (72.5 cm.) high; 62 ? in. (158 cm.) wide, extended; 26 in. (66 cm.) deep
A table of this pattern, executed in 'Grecian' black-figured rosewood and with 'Egyptian' lion-head ring-handles, was commissioned by Blayney Townley-Balfour (d. 1857) for the mansion at Townley Hall, Co. Louth, that he was building at the time of his marriage in 1797 to Lady Florence Cole. The table, with its poetic 'Apollo' lyre pilasters, was designed for the Library, which served as a fashionable Living-Room; and, together with lyre-scrolled chairs, it was intended to harmonise with the room's elegant Grecian-coffered ceiling designed by the eminent Irish architect Francis Johnston (d. 1829). It is likely to have been executed by a leading Dublin cabinet-maker and the ivory used in its decoration may have been a gift from Mrs Townley-Balfour's brother, Sir Lowry Cole, 'British Resident' in Mysore, India. The Townley Hall table was sold anonymously Christie's, London, 27 April 2006, lot 100 (£26,400 incl' premium).