A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT WARDROBE
Lot 41

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT WARDROBE

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1800, THE MAKER RICHARD DIXON

Closed22 May 2019

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GBP 11,250

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT WARDROBE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1800, THE MAKER RICHARD DIXON
With an arched pediment and dentil cornice above panelled doors, the central clothes press enclosing six oak trays and one additional tray, and with four graduated long drawers below with lacquered brass handles, flanked on each side by a full height door enclosing hanging space and adjustable shelves, on a plinth base, inscribed in pencil several times 'DB', 'Lancaster', 'Richard Dixon', and 'Fine Tuesday R Dixon board a hole in 'is finger' (sic)
90 ½ in. (230 cm.) high; 99 in. (252.cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

Specialist note

Richard Dixon is named in the Gillow records between 1799 - 1803 (G.Beard and C.Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture-makers 1660 - 1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 247).