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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' tablets 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.
A sideboard stamped by Gillows and also relating to this pattern, was sold by Mrs. R. D. Shafto, in these Rooms, February 8 1996, lot 186.
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.
A sideboard stamped by Gillows and also relating to this pattern, was sold by Mrs. R. D. Shafto, in these Rooms, February 8 1996, lot 186.