ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1825

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY PEDESTAL WINE COOLER
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1825
Lead-lined, the body modelled as a pedestal urn with plain everted rim, the lower part of the body reeded on a petal-carved socle and square plinth, the collar replaced
23 ½ in. (60 cm.) high; 27 in. (68 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

This model first appears in the Gillows' General Sketch Book of 1823. Two further sketches are shown in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books: the first dated 29th November 1826 (no. 3556B, carved by Rigby) and the other dated 29th January 1849 (sketch no. 5579, carved by Edmund Whiteside).

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