ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD TEAPOY
Attributed to Gillows
The circular rising top enclosing a fitted interior with a single lidded well and a compartment for a further well and two mixing-bowls, the urn-shaped body with a gadrooned edge and on a octagonal spreading shaft and on stiff leaves, and a concave-sided canted triangular plinth with scroll feet, lacking mixing-bowl and one caddy, the hinged top detached
17 in. (43 cm.) diam.; 30½ in. (77.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Probably supplied to William Powlett, 2nd Baron Bolton (1782-1850), for Hackwood.
By descent until sold in 1935 with Hackwood to William Berry (d.1954), 1st Viscount Camrose.
Thence by descent.

Special notice

VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer’s premium.

Lot Essay

This teapoy is another variation of the type of Gillow teapoy of which lot 52 is also an example. A pattern for a related rectangular teapoy appears in the Estimate Sketch Book for 1816, no. 3030). A design for a large open rectangular wine cooler with the same oversized reeded underside and distinctive Gillow feet is in the Estimate Sketch Book, 1820, no. 3064, and an executed circular cooler of the latter model was sold at Christie's London, 24 October 1991, lot 126.

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