Low prices are good news for buyers

THE pair of George IV specimen marble top tables for €195,000 at the IADA fair at the RDS in Dublin this weekend capture a current antique market moment.

Dealers believe that in order to sell it must be the best. The price might well turn out to be negotiable but tables like these, made in 1825 and ascribed to Gillows, are hard to come by and are priced accordingly.

The tables are inlaid with amethyst, malachite, porphyry, pietra paescene, agate and lapis lazuli.