ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1790

Details

A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, MAHOGANY AND EBONISED BOW-FRONT CHEST
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1790
With four line-inlaid graduated drawer on slightly splayed feet, the top probably reveneered
40 ¾ in. (103.5 cm.) high; 47 in. (119.5 cm.) wide; 23 ¼ in. (59 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A coloured design for a closely related satinwood commode, banded in 'purplewood', appears in the pattern book of Gillows of London and Lancaster (Westminster City Archives, no. 735/1)., and a sketch for another very similar satinwood commode, variously banded in tulipwood, purplewood and kingwood, appears in Gillows’ Estimate Sketch Books, dated 24 October 1789 (L. Boynton, (ed.), Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 118., pl. 11, pp. 168 and 180). The drawer handle is a characteristic Gillows pattern of 1790 – 1800 as illustrated in Susan Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730 – 1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol, II, p.335, pl. d9a.

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