Adam's Country House Collections Day II - 10th October 2023

140 478 A PAIR OF IRISH ‘D’ SHAPED SIDE TABLES WITH INLAID MARBLE TOPS ATTRIBUTED TO PIETRO BOSSI C.1785, on giltwood bases with continuous fluted friezes with pan - els of raised paterae, on associated leaf and herm capped fluted square legs. 123cm wide, 49.5cm deep, 85cm high Provenance: With R. McDonnell Ltd, Kildare Street, Irish Antiques Dealer’s Fair, Mansion House, Dublin 1970. Pietro Bossi (active in Ireland 1785-1798), started a work- shop in Fleet Street inlaying marble with his own formula of scagiola and coloured gypsum, the recipe for which he kept a close secret. He worked in the high and decorative style of Italian neo-classicism which fitted well with the ele - gant neo-Adam interiors of fashionable Dublin houses and plasterwork by such as Stapleton. Suspected of ‘French’ sypathies in 1798 Bossi left Ireland and nothing much more is heard of him. However a Dublin school of inlaid marble flourished for a while and sometimes it is difficult to distinguish their output from that of Bossi. € 50,000 - 80,000