South African Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 8 October 2012
Session 2
Lot Estimate
ZAR 80 000 - 100 000
About this Item
An Irish Killarney arbutus marquetry games table, early 19th century
the rectangular top inlaid with an oval cartouche of Muckross Abbey flanked by ferns within a fern, foliate and berry border, enclosing games boards for backgammon, chess and cribbage within shamrock borders and with roundels depicting The Abbey ruins, the frieze inlaid with a pair of dolphins, acorns and foliage, the tapering octagonal column inlaid with shamrocks, on a shaped plinth base similarly inlaid, raised on paw feet, 76,5cm high, 80cm wide, 42,5cm deep
Notes
Muckross Abbey is one of the major ecclesiastical sites found in the Killarney National Park, County Kerry, Ireland. Founded in 1448 as a Franciscan friary for the Observantine Franciscans, it has had a violent history and has been damaged and reconstructed many times. Today The Abbey is largely roofless and in the middle of the courtyard grows an ancient yew tree, said traditionally to be as old as The Abbey. It was the burial place of local chieftans and is still in use today.
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