CIRCA 1815, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOW

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A REGENCY BURR-ELM AND OAK GAMES TABLE
CIRCA 1815, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOW
The sliding top veneered to the underside with a chequerboard, the recess with a leather-lined backgammon board, the frieze with two short drawers, on bobbin turned supports with oak leaf brass caps and castors, inscribed to the underside in chalk 'Drawing Room', together with a complete Staunton Pattern fruitwood and ebonised chess set, the top patched
29½ in. (75cm.) high; 29¾ in. (75 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48.5cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The occasional table, with concealed games-board interior, has its 'Elizabethan' bobbin-turned trestles Grecian-scrolled, in the manner of Apollo's lyre, to evoke lyric poetry. The overall form relates to an 1818 pattern in the Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows of London and Lancaster (G.Wills, Craftsmen and Cabinet-Makers of Classic English Furniture, London, 1974, p.123). Its brass 'oak-leaf' castors, harmonising with its oak veneer, relate to those of the Endsleigh Library Table (lot 850). This is probably the 'Chess Table and Men' inventoried in 1839 in the Duchess's 'Drawing Room'.

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