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422 AN IMPORTANT EARLY VICTORIAN OAK DINING SUITE,
attributed to J.E. Crace and Sons, in the manner of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, comprising of an extending dining table, seven
dining chairs and three carvers, a dumb waiter, a two-door cabinet and a large sideboard,
(i) the diningtable comprising two canted end rectangular sections extending with three leaves, raised on faceted Gothic column legs
carved with rosettes. 365cm x 162cm wide, the hinged leaf clips stamped ‘Cope & Collinson, Jan 2, 1840’
(ii) a set of seven diningchairs with rail backs having carved rosettes on chamfered supports and upholstered seat on matching Gothic
chamfered square legs, with stretcher, five stamped ‘R’; three matching carvers with upholstered backs, one castor stamped Cope’s
Paten
(iii) a large shaped rectangular sideboard, the raised back with carved parcel ends, the back with an ‘R’ monogram above a frieze draw-
er and twin cupboard doors with linen fold panels, flanked by open compartments with drawers and open portrait panels
(iv) a matching three-tier dumbwaiter, 37cm
(v) and a two-door cabinet on castors with raised back. 121cm wide and 106cm wide
Provenance: This suite of furniture was inherited from the estate of Dr William McCartan from Sussex. Dr McCartan was Superintendent of the
Sussex County Mental Hospital, later St. Francis Hospital, a gift on his retirement in 1957.
It is likely that the suite was the first commission for Dr Lockhart Robinson, Suprintendent at the above institution at the time of its
opening in 1859. The carved ‘R’ in the sideboard and the origin of the suite would tend to prompt this conclusion.
A similar diningtable and chairs were sold in Christies, 30th November 2000, with identical markings to the chairs and the table clips.
€ 20,000 - 30,000