A REGENCY MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE

BY GILLOWS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE
BY GILLOWS
THE RECTANGULAR TOP WITH REEDED EDGE AND THREE-QUARTER SOLID GALLERY AND WITH CONCAVE FRONT ABOVE ONE LONG AND TWO SHORT MAHOGANY-LINED FRIEZE DRAWERS AND ON TURNING TAPERING REEDED LEGS WITH BRASS CAPS AND CASTORS, THE INTERIOR OF THE CENTRAL DRAWER WITH EARLY 19TH CENTURY INK INVENTORY INSCRIPTION 'N W'
45 in. (114 cm.) wide; 33 in. (84 cm.) high; 30½ in. (78 cm.) deep

Provenance

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

Literature

Gillows Memorandum, May 1813, North West Bedroom: 'A Dressing Table 5 drawers'.

Lot Essay

This is the only one of the four dressing tables of this type that remains at Hackwood that cannot be specifically identified among the six invoiced by Gillows in July 1813. The inventory mark of 'N W' identifies that it was in the North West Bedroom in the post-1813 inventory. That bedroom was destined to get a dressing-table according to the Memorandum, but one is not specified in the invoice itself. Either it was invoiced for another bedroom or delivered later.

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