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Lot Essay
The Gillows Memorandum (Hampshire RO, 11M49 468I) implies that this wardrobe should be fitted out in the same way as that supplied to Lord Bolton's Dressing Room (lot 369) with one long door enclosing pins for hanging boots. The evidence of the actual bill, and the surviving wardrobes, conforms that Gillows supplied this wardrobe fitted up as a lady's wardrobe with space for dresses rather than boots.
The pattern for this wardrobe first appears for a client called General Jones in March 1806 in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Book, 1801-22, p. 1784.
This wardrobe was supplied en suite with dressing-tables such as lot 356 and a bedside commode such as lot 379. All are mentioned in Gillows' bill and designs are preserved in the Estimate Sketch Books.
A low wardrobe with doors of this pattern was supplied by Gillows to T.W. Egerton for Tatton Park, Cheshire, in 1811 (N. Goodison and J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park', Furniture History, 1970, pls. 10a and 11a).
The pattern for this wardrobe first appears for a client called General Jones in March 1806 in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Book, 1801-22, p. 1784.
This wardrobe was supplied en suite with dressing-tables such as lot 356 and a bedside commode such as lot 379. All are mentioned in Gillows' bill and designs are preserved in the Estimate Sketch Books.
A low wardrobe with doors of this pattern was supplied by Gillows to T.W. Egerton for Tatton Park, Cheshire, in 1811 (N. Goodison and J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park', Furniture History, 1970, pls. 10a and 11a).