AN EARLY VICTORIAN GILT-METAL MOUNTED MAHOGANY X-FRAME STOOL

AFTER A DESIGN BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1840

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN GILT-METAL MOUNTED MAHOGANY X-FRAME STOOL
AFTER A DESIGN BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1840
The rectangular padded drop-in seat in blue and pink striped covers above moulded rails and scrolled supports, joined by stretchers and with turned pad feet
18 in. (46 cm.) high; 18¼ in. (46 cm.) wide; 17¾ in. (45 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The Grecian dressing-stool pattern derives from Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pl. XII, fig. 3, while the design corresponds to a pattern featured in the Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows of London and Lancaster (no. 3568) dated 1827.

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