ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY CHAMBER WRITING-TABLE
Attributed to Gillows
The rounded rectangular top with a hinged flap to the rear enclosing a pen-tray and a glass inkwell with white metal lid, above a frieze drawer, upon ring-turned tapering reeded legs with brass caps and castors inscribed in pencil on the underside of the drawer 'one'
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) wide; 20¾ in. (53 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A sketch for this type of table appears in Gillows Estimate Sketch Books, dated 1810, and called by them a 'chamber writing-table' (No. 344/144, p. 11, Westminster City Archives).
Gillows supplied four tables of this pattern in 1811 to T.W. Egerton for Tatton Park, Cheshire (N. Goodison and J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park, Cheshire', Furniture History, 1970, pp. 28, 30, 32 and 35, pl. 16B).
A closely related chamber writing-table was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 14 June 2001, lot 177 (£15,275).

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