POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1800

Details

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE BREAKFRONT-BOOKCASE**
POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1800
The molded cornice about three pairs of glazed doors with arched mullions over a fitted secretaire drawer over a pair of cupboard doors, flanked by two pairs of cupboard doors on a plinth, the doors with incut panels, with ivory escutcheons
102½ in. (260.5 cm.) high, 132 in. (335.5 cm.) wide, 22½ in. (57 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 June 1983, lot 161.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 May 1988, lot 104.
A Private Collection, Lexington, Kentucky; Sotheby's, New York, 19 October 2001, lot 265.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This breakfront bookcase is designed in the George IV antiquarian style with Gothic-panelled doors above richly-figured panelled doors. It incorporates a secretaire-cabinet in the centre. The reeded panelled doors are reminiscent of the work of Gillows of London and Lancaster, such as the library bookcase supplied by Gillows to John Lloyd Wynne (d. 1862) for Coed Coch, Denbighshire (see Christies, London, 18 April 1996, lot 234).

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