BY GILLOWS, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD ARMCHAIR
BY GILLOWS, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular back filled with turned spindles, the reeded arm supports with close-nailed green-velvet padded armrests above spindle supports and a reeded baluster end-support, on tapering reeded legs headed by inlaid rosettes, on brass castors, with a green velvet loose squab cushion, the front seat rail stamped 'GILLOWS LANCASTER'

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Lot Essay

The Regency library chair is intended to be upholstered in the French fashion with cushioned back and seat, and is robustly embellished with reeds and palm-flowered tablets in Gillows' Grecian fashion. Such chairs harmonised with their popular pattern of library-table, whose poetic lyre-scrolled trestles were strung with spindled pillars. One such table pattern features in their 1818 Estimate Sketch Book (see G. Wills, Craftsmen and Cabinet-Makers of Classic English Furniture, Edinburgh, 1974, p.117).

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