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From a 19th-century table that inspired a lament to the work of a modern craftsman Sheppard’s Great Irish Interiors sale features two tables by Cork men 150 years apart about 7 hours ago
Sheppard’s Great Irish Interiors sale, which will be held in a live online auction on April 28th and April 29th lists two important tables. Both were designed by Cork men but created almost 150 years apart. They could not be more different – from a profusely carved 19th-century piece with a nationalist narrative, to the ethereal blonde ash table and chairs made in an old potato barn in 2001. John Fletcher’s Shamrock Table, a 19th-century piece with three leaves in the shape of a shamrock, was created in Cork in 1852 but failed to sell when exhibited at the Irish Industrial Exhibition. Emblazoned with Irish symbolism in 13 different woods, the words, “as fada do shúan a chruit”(long has been thy slumber, O Harp) lie under a bare-breasted Erin carved in white ....