BY GORDON AND WATSON, AYR, CIRCA 1820-30, IN THE STYLE OF GILLOWS,

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE
BY GORDON AND WATSON, AYR, CIRCA 1820-30, IN THE STYLE OF GILLOWS,
With three-quarter reeded gallery of bowed and breakfront outline containing three drawers in the frieze, on ring-turned reeded legs, brass cappings and castors, bearing a label 'GORDON & WATSON CABINET & CHAIR MAKERS BACK OF THE FISH CROSS,AYR, have always for sale, a large assortment of fashionable articles in the CABINET & CHAIR LINE IN A VARIETY OF PATTERNS, ALSO DRESSING GLASSES OF VARIOUS SIZES - ELEGANT GILT CHIMNEY & PIER GLASSES - GLASS PLATES POLISHED AND SILVERED GILT FRAMES MADE FOR LOOKING GLASSES, NEEDLEWORK AND ANY KING OD DRAWINGS - AND OLD GILTWORK REGILDED', pencil inscription 'JOHN CE...AR' on the underside of the drawers
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 39 in. (99 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The same label of the Ayr cabinet-makers, Messrs. Gordon and Watson, who were listed in the High Street in W. MacArter's,Directory of Ayr, 1829, also features on an early l9th century chest-of-drawers in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh (Regional Furniture Journal, 1993 p.9).

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