M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES & FINE ARTS
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ERIN GO BRAGH!
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A wee bit of Ireland for all who have a wee bit of Irish in you ....
And
best anyway to those who do not....
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Irish
George II Carved Mahogany Tea Table
For your
tea...or Guinness...whichever comes first
Ireland, c1750
(Incidentally, Guinness was
founded in 1759 in Dublin, and has been brewing ale ever since).
The convex ruffled apron
centering and escallop shell to each long size,
raised on shell and leaf headed cabriole
legs and ball and claw feet
(the latter appearing as
dragons on tip-toes)
Irish tea tables have wonderful configurations,
usually with convex, concave, and / or shaped aprons.
In addition, the tops are affixed by glue
blocks only, instead of screws.
These glue
blocks are allowed to fall out as the wood shrinks, preventing some (but
not all)
of the natural shrinkage fractures that occur
in wood over the years.
27" High x 30-7/8" Long x
21-3/4" Wide
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Set 6 George II Irish Provincial Acanthus & Shell Cast Teaspoons
Should you wish tea;
however their small size
makes ice cream last incredibly long,
(a tip from my Grandfather
Doyle...
who also had me
convinced I could fly with the aid of a towel properly placed about the
shoulders.
I finally gave up
at age 6.)
John Irish, Cork,
Ireland, working c1750-70, I.I crowned with additional II;
the mark listed in Jackson,
Cork Pl. IV, found on a teaspoon;
The bowl heels also with a
cast shell and scratch initialed A*B
Mid-18th century
picture-back teaspoons are getting extremely hard to find -
those with cast terminals
even more difficult
4.5" Long / 2.8 oz.
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George I / II Carved Cuban Mahogany Side Chair
For when you
have had too much of anything, and just wish to sit
English...or possibly Irish,
c1725-35
The shell-carved front
cabriole legs ending in square-ish ball and claw feet,
the ball with a small web to
the top, the carving extending far down the leg,
all characteristics of Irish
carving (and occasionally borrowed by the English).
39.5" High x 21" Wide x
17" Deep
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Pair of George III Irish
Silver Waiters / Patens
Richard Wilson,
Dublin, Ireland, c1786-87
Each with wonderfully
engraved and cast rims, and bearing the crest of an Anglican Bishop's Mitre,
one Mitre surmounting
an eagle displayed, ducally crowned
6-3/8" Diameter / 16 oz.
Winging its way to us
now...,
For an Irish Bishop's St.
Patty's Day's blessing for whatever you are about to do "wrong".
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Pair of Irish George III Spirit Decanters & Stoppers
Ireland, (of course) c1800
For your finest of
spirits....
as the
cutting is fine - and deep - and extremely sharp -
and the weight is
VERY heavy, as in the best of Irish glass.
Should you be inclined
toward "softer" spirits, then perhaps green Kool-aid in honor St. Patty?
9.25" High x 3.5"
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That's all the Irish we have right
now...
save the
blue
eyes,
the great stories
(most of which were out-and-out "tales") told to us
through the hint of a grin,
the bright and buoyant
spirit of child-like hope,
and the will of steel
(formerly called "stubbornness")
that came by Irish
inheritance.
But we are always
looking for more....
HAPPY ST. PATTY'S
DAY!
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