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the top with tooled leather scriber above frieze drawers with cast brass circular handles, raised on a turned centrepillar and outswept reeded

tripod, base with brass toe caps and castors, 137cm diameter.

€ 2,000 - 3,000

Provenance:

: Woodstown House, County Waterford.

Mack, Williams and Gibton were a long lived and highly successful partnership which traded together in Stafford Street, Dublin. Its history can be

traced to the latter part of the 18th century when John Mack established a cabinet-making business in Abbey Street, Dublin. The initial partner-

ship formed between John Mack and Robert Gibton formed in 1803. Mack and Gibton received the ultimate accolade in 1806 when appointed

‘Upholsterers & Cabinet Makers to his Majesty, His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and His Majesty’s Board of works’. Robert Gibton died in 1812.

An announcement in the Dublin Evening Post stated that the remaining partners ‘beg leave to acquaint their Friends and the Public, that in the

Business of their House, in all its branches, will in future be carried on by them in the same extensive manner heretofore, under the firm of Mack,

Williams and Gibton (son of their late partner)’. Zachariah Williams, who had married Robert Gibton’s daughter, joined the management, thus

creating the new partnership of Mack, Williams and Gibton. The firm enjoyed unparalleled success, supplying furniture and upholstery for many of

the most important public buildings in Ireland, including Dublin Castle, the Chapel Royal, the Viceregal Lodge, the Four Courts, the War Office and

the Barracks Office. The firm also undertook commissions for many country houses including Borris House County Carlow, Ballynegall, County

Westmeath and Ballyfin, Co. Laois. Woodstown, Co. Waterford is an elegant Regency villa beautifully sited overlooking Waterford harbour. The

house is attributed to George Pain and was built circa 1823 for Robert Carew, later 1st Lord Carew, as a present for his wife.