Lot Essay
A "sett of rosewood quarto tables highly inlaid" of nearly identical form is illustrated in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books in March 1811 (E.S.B folio no. 1895).
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CIRCA 1800, POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS
Details
A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III ROSEWOOD AND PARTRIDGE WOOD BANDED QUARTETTO TABLES
CIRCA 1800, POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS
The tops strung in ebony and boxwood, the feet inlaid with conforming lines, the largest table with a late 19th century White's depository label underneath for Miss Blount
The largest 30 in. (77 cm.) high; 25¼ in. (64 cm.) wide; 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep (2)
CIRCA 1800, POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS
The tops strung in ebony and boxwood, the feet inlaid with conforming lines, the largest table with a late 19th century White's depository label underneath for Miss Blount
The largest 30 in. (77 cm.) high; 25¼ in. (64 cm.) wide; 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Possibly the Blount family of Mawley Hall, Salop, who were major Gillows of Lancaster clients from 1791 to at least 1802 (see L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, London, 1995, p.199)
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