拍品 399
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An Irish mid-Victorian oak side table
An Irish mid-Victorian oak side table

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An Irish mid-Victorian oak side table
With serpentine rectangular grey veined marble top and foliate-carved frieze with shaped apron centred by a cartouche with a crest of two arms holding a sword, on cabriole legs each headed by a satyr mask and carved with foliage, lacking right-hand side of motto
35in. (89cm.) high, 75in. (191cm.) wide, 25½in. (65.5cm.) deep
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拍品专文

The crest has traditionally been identified with that of the Parnell Family, however, the Parnell crest is "out of a ducal coronet, or a dexter arm, in hand a sheaf of arrows". This is a different family to that of Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish nationalist leader.