CHATSWORTH FINE ART SALE April 29th, 30th & May 1st 2026

63 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 683. Thomas Creswick RA (1811-1869) An attractive Pastoral Scene “Boating in front of a Cottage,” approx. 33cms x 45cms (13” x 18”) in gilt frame. (1) €400 - €600 684. John Henry Callow, British (1822-1878) “Seaside Scenes with Boats, Figures and Fishermen on Shore,”O.O.C., a pair, each approx. 24cms x 41cms (12” x 16”), Signed on one, in matching ornate gilt frames. (2) €400 - €600 685. In the Manner of Walter Osborne (1859-1903) “Plough Horses at Work,”O.O.C., Pastoral Scene with two horses in foreground and worker in foreground, in foreground, 61cms x 73cms (24” x 29”) bears signature lower right in egg n’ dart moulded gilt frame. (1) €700 - €900 686. A collection of 12 varied coloured Prints, of Fashion Figures, including La Mode Illustree and others, each embellished in 3D form, with material attire. An unique collection. (12) €350 - €450 687. Castletown House, Co. Kildare An Irish George II, c. 1760, red walnut Architect’s Table, the finely figured ratcheted lift top revealing a baize lined surface, above a pull-out front drawer with central brass handle, which opens to a fitted interior, on square fretwork spandrels, the legs incorporating engaged columns on original castors. (1) Provenance: Removed from Castletown House, circa 1966, and thereafter retained in a private collection in County Kildare. €1400 - €1800 688. An attractive Georgian style mahogany and satinwood crossbanded Sofa Table, probably Hicks, with demi-lune flaps above a frieze with two drawers with ornate handles, with straight uprights, united by turned stretcher on outsplayed legs with hairy paw castors, approx. 152cms opened x 61cms deep x 74cms high (60” x 24” x 29”). (1) €200 - €300 689. An Irish 19th Century carved mahogany Open Armchair, of low proportions, stamped M. Butler, the deep button back issuing upholstered arms and carved uprights, on front paw carved feet. (1) €200 - €300 686 687 690. A Georgian style spiral Library Steps, with pillar handle and leather inset steps, on turned tapering legs. (1) €200 - €300 682. A very fine rosewood Sofa Table, inlaid with satinwood and ebony, the frieze fitted with two drawers with circular brass pulls, the opposing side with identically decorated dummy drawers, above twin supports, united by an arched stretcher, raised on down swept sabre legs terminating in stylized brass caps and castors, approx. 66cms deep x 148cms open x 73cms high (26” x 58” x 29”). (1) Literature: Gillows of Lancaster and London, by Susan E. Stuart. For a comparable example, see Plate 268, Vol. I, one of a pair of sofa tables supplied by Gillows in 1803, to Stephen Tempest of Broughton Hall. The first sofa table to appear in the ‘Estimate Sketch Book’ featured in 1801, at the same time as the Clonbrock commission, see plate 269, Stuarts Gillows of Lancaster & London, 1730-1840, indicating that this sofa table from Clonbrock was one of the first tables of its type to be produced by Gillows.
* This table is identified in the 1801 bill as ‘To a handsome rosewood Sofa Table for the Drawing Room, 12 Guineas’. Provenance: Clonbrock House, Galway, by direct family descent. €1000 - €1500