A Fine 19th Century Irish Library Table Attributed to Gillingtons of Dublin

A very fine 19th Century fruitwood library table by the London maker 'Holland', of exceptional quality and fabulously hand carved with gorgeously rich patination. The well figured, ...

A very rare and fine Irish Georgian mahogany sofa table stamped 'Gillington of Dublin', finely hand carved and of exceptional quality with...

A stunning 19th century Irish solid mahogany console, side or hall table, beautifully hand carved with rich patination and grain. The moulded rim top raised over shaped apron with ce...

A fabulous 19th century fruitwood library table desk finely hand carved with gorgeously rich grain and patination. The moulded top of rectangular form raised over scalloped frieze ab...

A very fine 19th century walnut and mahogany console or hall table. Fabulously hand carved with rich patination and grain, the moulded, serpentine top with gallery back rail is raise...

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Fine 19th century Irish Regency period oval breakfast table. Good color and great quality timbers used in this period Irish table. Oval top over turned p...

Rococo Revival center table attributed to the prestigious New York firm of Joseph Meeks. Heavily hand carved rosewood featuring floral bouquets and rosettes, graceful serpentine legs...

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A walnut serpentine card table firmly attributed to Gillows Constructed using finely figured Circassian walnut, dressed with gilt bronze mounts; rising from slender kingwood banded ...

A magnificent library table Attributed to Jackson & Graham Of free standing rectangular form, constructed in coromandel, with inlays in thuya, ebony, boxwood, and honeysuckle; the fluted legs rising from square brass castor-shod feet; the frieze housing two lockable drawers fitted with rare ‘tamper proof’ Chubb locks and having quadrant moulded cedar lined interiors; the platform having a central panel of beautifully chosen matched coromandel veneers, with an outer guard border of a running pattern of stylised anthemions; the ebony edges having a thumb nail moulding, circa 1865 The firm of Jackson & Graham established in 1836 by Thomas Jackson and Peter Graham at 37 Oxford Street London, and for the next fifty years produced predominately high quality furniture and represented Britain at many of the international exhibitions. Their clients included Queen Victoria, Napoleon III, the Grand Khedive of Cairo and the royal palace in Siam. They were particularly noted for their fine marquetry work, the use of Wedgwood plaques, rare woods, and fine casting of bronze mounts. They engaged the leading designers of the period, inter alia, Owen Jones, Bruce Talbert, Alfred Lorimer and Eugene Prignot. In the mid-1850s the workforce was recorded as 250, and by 1875, the company was employing 600 workers. They were feted exhibitors at many of the Great Exhibitions of the 19th century, and frequent prize winners. At the Paris International Exhibition of 1878, the furniture jury noted of them ‘ the workmanship is so perfect that even with the aid of a magnifying glass scarcely the slightest imperfection is to be found’. In 1885 the company was absorbed by Collinson and Lock, who continued their standard of excellence. Charles Chubb was apprenticed as a blacksmith before starting business as a ships’ ironmonger in Winchester. Jeremiah soon joined the business, and by 1818 the brothers had branched out into lockmaking, founding the famous Chubb Company. The business really got started when Jeremiah Chubb patented his new ‘detector lock’ in 1818. The lock was constructed so that if someone tried to pick it or open it with the wrong key it became inoperable. To make the lock work again the owner had to use a special key supplied with the lock. The aim of the detector lock was to prevent burglaries, and to warn the owner that someone had tried to break into their property. The lock soon became popular, and sales of the Chubbs’ products increased even more when they won a government competition to design a lock that could only be opened using its own key. After the invention of the detector lock, the Chubbs decided to move to Wolverhampton, which already had an established lock making industry. By 1838 they were making 28,000 locks a year at their Wolverhampton factory. Another product was added to the Chubb range in 1835 when a patent was taken out for a burglar resistant safe, and in 1837 the Chubb safe...