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Lot Essay
This elegant spindle-galleried plate-stand is fitted with a stretcher-tray and is very similar to one formerly at Kenwood with a mahogany gallery, illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. III, p. 163, fig. 1.
Another plate-stand, attributed to Gillows but with reeded legs was sold from a private collection [50 Years of Collecting], in these Rooms, 14 May 2003, lot 142. That one was probably one of the two pairs, one pair with plain legs and one pair with reeded legs, which formed part of the dining-room furnishings commissioned in 1801-2 from Gillows by David Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield (d.1840), and were listed in the 1831 inventory of the house (J. Bryant, Kenwood, 1990).
A very similar mahogany plate-stand with wooden baluster gallery was sold anonymously at Lawrences, Crewkerne, 16-17 May 2002.
Another plate-stand, attributed to Gillows but with reeded legs was sold from a private collection [50 Years of Collecting], in these Rooms, 14 May 2003, lot 142. That one was probably one of the two pairs, one pair with plain legs and one pair with reeded legs, which formed part of the dining-room furnishings commissioned in 1801-2 from Gillows by David Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield (d.1840), and were listed in the 1831 inventory of the house (J. Bryant, Kenwood, 1990).
A very similar mahogany plate-stand with wooden baluster gallery was sold anonymously at Lawrences, Crewkerne, 16-17 May 2002.