ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY WASHSTAND
Attributed to Gillows
The rounded rectangular top with reeded three-quarter gallery above five mahogany-lined frieze drawers around a kneehole, on reeded tapering legs with brass caps and castors, repaired break to the top of one leg, the underside of the central drawer with chalk inscription 'DW85', the central drawer with fragmentary label 'J.J. ..ELS Appraiser AND Undertaker(?) No. 36 Great [Queen] Street LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS'
31 in. (78.5 cm.) high; 41 in. (104 cm.) wide; 22¼ in. (56.5 cm.) deep

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Sale room notice

The label has been identified as that adopted in 1835 by the furniture maker and broker, John James Helsdon (fl. 1820s-1860s), following his move from York Street, Covent Garden. As noted on the present label, he also advertised 'Household Furniture bought or taken in exchange' (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1660-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 33).

We are grateful to John Bedford ACIS, for this information.

Lot Essay

In 1811 Messrs. Gillow of London and Lancaster supplied a related and more refined version of their 'Five drawer Dressing Table with rim on turned reeded legs' for Parlington Hall, Yorkshire (C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Leeds, 1978, vol. II, no. 500). A pair of related bedside cupboards, attributed to Gillows and dated around 1820 were sold Sotheby's London, 29 March 2000 lot 71 (£35,000). Amongst furniture brokers, who retailed Gillows furniture in Great Queen Street at this period was the firm of T. Willson at No.68 (C. Gilbert, The Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1660-1840, Leeds, 1996, p.56).

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