BY GILLOW & CO., CIRCA 1840

Details

A VICTORIAN OAK KIDNEY-SHAPED PEDESTAL DESK
By Gillow & Co., circa 1840
The kidney-shaped tooled leather writing surface above a frieze drawer stamped Gillow, flanked by two small drawers above two banks of four graduated convex-fronted drawers each fitted locking stiles, on a molded plinth, with recessed porcelain casters, the lockplate stamped J.T. NEEDS 100 NEW BOND ST and J. BRAMAH 184 PICCADILLY and bearing the dealer's label of S&H JEWELL 132 HIGH HOLBORN LONDON
28½in. (72.5cm.) high, 53½in. (136cm.) wide, 30in. (76cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's New York, 13 October 1994, lot 435 ($20,700).

Lot Essay

This model of desk is based on a design dated 1792 published by Thomas Sheraton in his The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book, London, 1793, pl. 58. It is a model that was made by Gillows of London and Lancaster from 1840 to circa 1860, many of which bear the firm's stamp. The design of this desk closely relates to two sketches for 'An Oak pedestal and Kidney table' in one of Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books, dated 1840.

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