Lot Essay
This sideboard's elliptic-centred frieze has bead-edged tablets framed by flowered paterae surmounting the trussed-pilasters of the plinth-supported and hollow-cornered pedestals. The reeded trusses, with flowered and acanthus-wrapped volutes, terminate in palm-wrapped collars and bacchic lion-paws while the commode doors' tablet of richly figured mahogany have reed-ribboned frames with Grecian fret-corners.
Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books for 15 October 1810, no. 1882 (Westminster City Library) features the pattern for a pair of sideboards which were commissioned by Richard Oliver Gascoigne shortly after his inheritance of Parlington Hall, Yorkshire. Both sideboards were sold in a dispersal at the house early this century and it is possible that this is one of the two, as it has to date only been possible to trace one. While the paterae were supplied by Gillow of London, the sideboard was manufactured in Lancaster by Joseph Robinson at a cost of ¨42.17.2.
Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books for 15 October 1810, no. 1882 (Westminster City Library) features the pattern for a pair of sideboards which were commissioned by Richard Oliver Gascoigne shortly after his inheritance of Parlington Hall, Yorkshire. Both sideboards were sold in a dispersal at the house early this century and it is possible that this is one of the two, as it has to date only been possible to trace one. While the paterae were supplied by Gillow of London, the sideboard was manufactured in Lancaster by Joseph Robinson at a cost of ¨42.17.2.