A REGENCY MAHOGANY CHAMBER WRITING-TABLE

BY GILLOWS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY CHAMBER WRITING-TABLE
By Gillows
The reeded rounded rectangular top with hinged flap enclosing fittings for wells, with two mahogany-lined frieze drawers and on reeded turned tapering legs and castors
35½ in. (90 cm.) wide; 28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 18¾ in. (48 cm.) deep

Provenance

Supplied in 1813 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, either in the Dressing Room adjoining the South West Bedroom 'A Small Mahogany Writing Table' or in the Dressing Room adjoining the North Center (sic) Bedroom 'A small writing table'.

Lot Essay

Although not mentioned in the surviving 1813 bill, this 'chamber' writing-table has an impeccable Gillow pedigree. A sketch appears in their General Sketch Book, no. 344 144, p. 11 (City of Westminster Archive Centre). Four such tables were supplied in 1811 to T.W. Egerton for Tatton Park, Cheshire, and each were described as 'a Mahogany Chamber Writeing Table, 3ft. 0 long on turned Reeded legs, two drawers...5 Guineas' (N. Goodison and J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park, Furniture History, 1970, pp. 28, 30, 32 and 35, pl. 16B). Four that are stamped by Gillows and for which the bill exists were originally at Parlington Hall, also supplied in 1811, and one of these is now at Lotherton Hall (C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Leeds, 1978, vol. II, p. 381, no. 502).

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