Live Auction 1644Important English Furniture including Property from Villa San Maurizio La Jolla, California
A GEORGE III INLAID-SATINWOOD WRITING-TABLE
Lot 217

A GEORGE III INLAID-SATINWOOD WRITING-TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1790

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A GEORGE III INLAID-SATINWOOD WRITING-TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1790
The rectangular banded top above a mahogany-lined faux panelled and divided fall-front drawer opening to a green felt-lined ratcheted writing surface and drawers, sliding to reveal lidded compartments inlaid with letters, over square tapering legs ending in brass caps and casters, with remnants of an old printed paper label to underside ...GW...Reading..., one interior pull later, caps and casters later
33½ in. (85 cm.) high, 43½ in. (110 cm.) wide, 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Christie', New York, 17 October 1981, lot 142.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 20-21 October 2003, lot 301.

Specialist note

This corresponds to a Gillows design dated 1794 executed for J. Shuckburgh, Esq. and reproduced in L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Hertfordshire, 1995, fig. 41 and color plate 5. The 1794 design describes a table in satinwood with 'a broad purplewood band around the top' and shows the same loop brasses which are characteristic of the work of Gillows. Unlike the design, this particular desk is elaborately fitted with alphabetized drawers which is another feature found on other Gillow models.