Lot Essay
Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, illustrated this pattern of Roman-pedimented cabinet, while flowered patterae displayed in the upper hollow-moulded spandrels correspond to bookcase doors illustrated in a 1771 design in the Estimate Sketch Books of Robert and Richard Gillow of Lancaster (L. Boynton (ed.), Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig.137). The exceptional quality of the mahogany panels, with their matched figuring, could indicate Gillows as a likely manufacturer.