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Description A pair of George III sycamore and harewood inlaid serpentine card tables, circa 1790, possibly Irish, the tulipwood crossbanded tops revealing baize-lined interiors, each frieze centred by a harewood medallion of a butterfly, on tapered square legs headed by harewood urn medallions, 77cm high, 91cm wide, 45cm deepProvenance: Castle Hyde, IrelandThe Hydes of Castle Hyde were a branch of the Berkshire family that owned land at South Denchworth and Kingston Lisle. Arthur Hyde (d. 1600) had settled in Ireland in the late sixteenth century and received a grant of 12,000 acres of confiscated lands at Carrigoneda, county Cork. His son and namesake (d. 1644) was knighted in 1624 and by 1670 the family were in possession of Castle Hyde. Hyde's father, a younger son, had in 1763 married a granddaughter of the 1st earl of Bessborough. The same year he replaced his father-in-law Benjamin Burton as Member for county Carlow in the Irish Parliament, where he sat until 1768 before representing county Cork, 1769-76. In 1772 he succeeded his unmarried brother Arthur to Castle Hyde, which at his death in 1797 passed to his elder son John Hyde MP who, in about 1801, employed architects, Hargrave of Cork to build the present house. In 1798 Hyde's sister Sarah married their second cousin Henry Boyle (1771-1842), who became 3rd earl of Shannon in 1807, an alliance which was reinforced by Hyde's marriage to another second cousin, Boyle's first cousin Elizabeth, in 1802. Douglas Hyde, founder of the Gaelic League and first Irish President, was a scion of this family.The House was eventually sold in 1851 to John Sadleir MP for 17,525, who in turn sold it again in 1861.Castle Hyde subsequently became the seat of John Wrixon Becher, second son of Sir William Wrixon Becher of Ballygiblin, to whom the present lot most probably belonged.