Cork cockfighting chair is unusual lot at sale

AN Irish Georgian chair with a hinged reading table attached at the back is one of the more unusual lots at the James Adam auction in Dublin tomorrow.

Possibly made in Cork, lot 29 is a George III chair with a tub frame and a ten bar open back splat.

The ten bar back suggests a Cork origin, the hinged reading table make it what is termed a “cockfighting chair”. It is thought that owners would have had these chairs carried from the library to the cockfighting pit.