CONSOLE TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO J. HICKS DUBLIN - REF No. 5011

Product Details

H: 33 in / 84 cm ; W: 59 3/4 in / 152 cm ; D: 23 1/4 in / 59 cm

A superb 19th century Irish mahogany console table in the style of Hepplewhite, of demi lune outline the shaped top above a moulded apron with carved paterae roundels raised on square tapering panelled legs decorated with husks and acorns on stepped block feet.

Circa 1890

Irish

Biography:

James HICKS (1886 - 1936), a cabinetmaker, was extremely skilled at producing furniture in 18th-century styles. He trained in the cabinet making workshops on Tottenham Court Road in London. On his return set up business in 1893 at 5 Lower Pembroke Street, Dublin. He established what was to become one of Dublin’s leading cabinet making firms with a client list that included Princess Victoria, the Crown Princess of Sweden, and King Edward VII making fine veneered and inlaid furniture usually to commission.