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A SET OF TEN GRAINED ROSEWOOD DINING CHAIRS, C.1825
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including a pair of armchairs, each with anthemion-scroll toprail with brass bosses, drop-in seats and sabre
legs, the armchairs with scroll supports, one side chair is stamped J.P. Lynch, Limerick
One of the chairs in this set is stamped J.P. Lynch, Limerick. Joseph Lynch was a cabinet-maker and joiner
who also worked as a furniture dealer. In Limerick trade directories he is recorded as Michael Street from
1906, but by 1914 had moved to the Columcille Factory on Bedford Row. His stamp would indicate that the
present chairs passed through his workshop and might have been restored or even sold by him in this early
part of this century
Provenance: Sotheby’s Irish Sale 2/9/1995 sold for £13,000
€8000 - 10,000
