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Edwardian vitrine/showcase

An small very pretty inlaid mahogany vitrine showcase with a locking glazed hinged top. Date:circa 1900. Sizes:21"wide, 14"deep, 29"high.

Mahogany Regency cabinet

A late Regency period mahogany side cabinet in particuarly fine well matched veneers with all the original patination. Date:circa 1825. Sizes: 40"wide, 19"deep, 34"high.

Small Regency mahogany cabinet

An unusually small Regency period mahogany cabinet with its fine original colour, it has a single drawer and a pair of well matched cupboard doors. Sizes: 27"wide, 14"deep, 29"high.

A William IV period mahogany dining table

A mahogany extending dining table that has one extra leaf but will then fold down to a drop leaf pembroke table, see photos, This table has a wonderfull rich colour and is of the highest quality. Sizes fully extended: 67"long, 48"wide, 29"high. Size with the extra leaf out but with the drop leaves raised: 47"long, 48"wide, 29"high,. Size fully reduced to a pembroke table: 48"long, 24"wide, 29"high. Date of this table:circa 1830.

Portrait of Frances Jennings, Lady Hamilton and Duchess of Tyrconnell 1647-1730 by Michael Dahl Snr 1659 - 1743

Inscribed on a label attached to the reverse " Frances Jennings (Sister of Sarah first Duchess of Marlborough) Painted by Michael Dahl. Plaque on frame says: Frances. Lady Hamilton b.1656 Michael Dahl d.1743. oil on canvas 30 x 25in. Frances was sister of Sarah (nee Jennings), duchess of Marlborough, both daughters and co-heiresses of Richard Jennings of Sandridge, Co. Hertford by Frances, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Giffard Thornhurst, baronet. She First Married Sir George Hamilton (bef. 1621–1676), , Count Hamilton, and her second husband was Sir Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel who she married in Paris in 1679 Frances Jennings was one of the Maids of Honour to Catherine of Bragança. After 1691 she retired to Saint Germains and was Lady of the Bedchamber to Mary of Modena. She returned to Ireland about 1720 and was allowed to build a convent of the Poor Clares at King Street, Dublin. She died aged 82, falling out of bed at Paradise Row or Arbour Hill, Dublin on 6.3.1731 and was buried on 9.3.1731 at St. Patrick's Cathedral. She was one of the most celebrated beauties at the court of Charles II, and Gramont wrote of her: "Miss Jennings….had a complexion more dazzling fair than had ever yet been seen. Her tresses were a perfect blond…the turn of her face was delightful, and her bosom…was the same brilliance as her complexion…she was all sparkling with wit and vivacity…her conversation was seductive…(or) intellligent and penetrating." (Memories of Gramont, pp 223-4). Highly spirited and vivacious by nature, she caused a sensation at court when she appeared aged 15 as Maid of Honour to the Duchess of York. She married George Hamilton. Due to Catholic opposition they settled in France where Hamilton was killed at the Battle of Savarne in 1676. In 1679 she married her earlier suitor, Colonel Richard Talbot, who was crated Earl of Tyrconnel after the accession of James II and given command of the army in Ireland. Tyrconnel dies in Limerick in 1691 after the defeat of Aughrim. Frances spent the following years in France, England and Holland before finally settling in Dublin where she lived in a house in paradise Row, Arbor Hill, near Phoenix Park. She founded a nunnery in King Street for the Order of Poor Clares. She had two children by Tyrconnel, one of whom, Lady Charlotte , married the Prince of Vintimiglia. She also had three daughters by Hamilton: Elizabeth, Frances and Mary who married respectively Viscount Ross, Dillon and Kingsland, and were known in Ireland as the "three viscountesses".

Edwardian mahogany desk

A small very pretty mahogany desk of the Edwardian period.It is inlaid with boxwood stringing, has a lifting green leathered writing slope, with a very attractive upstand at the back. Date circa 1900. Sizes: 21"wide, 20"deep, 45" high.

Wellington chest

An excellent Victorian period mahogany Wellington chest of seven drawers, both side sections open and then lock all the drawers when closed. Date:circa 1870. Sizes: 19"wide, 16"deep, 42"high.

Mahogany kneehole desk

A mid 19th. cent. mahogany kneehole desk in three sections, it is polished at the back, has a green leathered top, has its original polished surface and is in excellent condition. Date:circa 1850. Sizes: 47"wide, 25"deep, 29" high.

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