IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS, CIRCA 1830

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A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY CENTRE-STANDING WRITING-TABLE
IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS, CIRCA 1830
The rectangular top with curved corners above two frieze drawers with geometric mouldings and Indian rosewood handles and escutcheons, on tapering reeded legs with baluster feet and brass caps and castors
28 ½ in. (72 cm.) high; 39 in. (99 cm.) wide; 23 ¾ in. (60.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The table-pattern corresponds to the furniture supplied by Gillows around 1810 for the Judge's Lodgings in Lancaster. In particular the dressing-table features the same idiosyncratic turned columns that run all the way to the underside of the table top and the same cut-cornered panels, and these were characteristic of other furniture produced by the Lancaster firm (see Susan Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730 - 1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol. I, p.322 -323, pl. 383). Another dressing-table of the same pattern was supplied by Gillows for Coilsfield House, Ayrshire, in 1807, sold anonymously Christie's, London, 18 November 2010, £28,750 including premium.

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