AN IRISH GEORGE III SIDE TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM MOOREIrish, Circa 1785Note, This table has acquired a wonderful patination and colour.Note, A video of this table is available on our instagram page.The marquetry top is of the highest quality and sophisticated execution and has survived in virtually completely untouched original condition. William Moore worked for London cabinet-makers Mayhew & Ince before setting up his own business in Dublin, in 1782. On the 26th of April of that year an advertisement in the Dublin Evening Post announced,�To the Nobility and Gentry� William Moore, most respectfully acknowledges the encouragement he has received, begs leave to inform those who may want Inlaid Work, that by his close attention to business, and instruction to his men, he has brought the Manufacture to such perfection, to be able to sell for almost one-half his original prices; as the greatest demand is for Pier-tables, he has just finished in the newest taste, a great variety of patterns, sizes and prices, from three Guineas to Twenty; Card-tables on a new construction (both ornamented and plain) which appear like small Pier-tables, with every article in the Inlaid Way, executed on the shortest notice, and hopes from his long experience, at Messrs. Mayhew and Ince, London, his remarkable fine coloured woods, and elegant finished work, to meet the approbation of all who shall please to honour him with their commands� (Country Life, 31 May 1946).A related table sold Christies 10 July 2003, Lot 104 for �117,250A pair of related Commodes sold in Christies, The English Collector, 19 Nov 2015 for �242,500A pair of related Commodes with similar tops are in the Metropolitan Museum New York.Other examples of William Moores work are in museums such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, National Museum of Ireland and the Ulster Museum, Belfast.LITERATUREThe Knight of Glin, Irish Furniture, pages 162/1...