BY GILLOWS

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A PAIR OF REGENCY OAK CANED BERGERES
By Gillows
Each with rectangular caned back, arms and front seat-rail edged with hobnail studs with brown leather arm-rests seat and back cushions, with foliate finials, with spirally turned arm-fronts and legs and on brass caps and castors, both branded 'B' below a Baron's coronet (2)

Provenance

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.

Literature

Gillows Memorandum, May 1813, Lord Bolton's Study: '2 Good easy chairs oak, cushions covered with green leather a reading desk to one of Do'. The 1905 Hampton and Sons inventory, The Study: 'The oak suite with spiral legs & cane seats upholstered in brown Morocco comprising:
2 Arm Chairs with loose seats and backs with leather (one fitted with reading desk
4 Occasional Chairs with loose seats'.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

This pair of chairs are the only apparent survivors of the furniture that Gillows probably supplied for Lord Bolton's study at Hackwood in 1813. Several rooms in the house were plastered in a consciously 17th Century style and it seems likely that the oak furniture on his study was commissioned in a similar vein. One chair retains the socket from the hinged reading-stand that is itself lost.

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