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A LIBRARY OF GEORGE III AND GEORGE IV MAHOGANY AND GLAZED LIBRARY BOOKCASES
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A LIBRARY OF GEORGE III AND GEORGE IV MAHOGANY AND GLAZED LIBRARY BOOKCASES
Irish, circa 1770 and later
Provenance: Ards House, County Donegal
ARDS HOUSE LIBRARY
1. LARGER FOUR DOOR BREAKFRONT
(IN THE VIEW ABOVE, IS SOLD)
H. 10 ft. (305cm)
W. 12 ft. (366cm)
2. FOUR DOOR BREAKFRONT (out of shot on far RHS.)
This bookcase is similar to but smaller than item
1 (see above far LHS).
H. 10 ft. (305cm)
W. 11 ft. (335cm)
3. PAIR of BOOKCASES
(one of the pair is shown in the centre here)
H. 9 ft. (247 cm)
W. 7 ft. (213 cm)
4. A SINGLE BOOKCASE
Third from LHS.
H. 8 ft.4ins. (100 cm)
W. 9 ft. (274cm)
(Estimate of dimensions) .
Provenance and notes.
(see Plate 91 in the third edition of Chippendale’s Directory of 1753)
The Cork architect James Hargrave , commissioned by Alexander Stewart built Ards House (1830), on the site of the former eighteenth century manor house of Humphrey Wray .
It is understood that the offered bookcases were re-constructed for the new house,having previously been in a fitted and panelled library in the earlier building.
This 1820’s work is signed and dated in pencil John Fitzpatrick 6/4/29.
During the last century, the house was used as a Franciscan friary but, like so many other fine old Irish houses, it was later abandoned and fell into disrepair.
The house was demolished in 1965.
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