A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE

BY GILLOWS

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE
By Gillows
The rounded rectangular green baize-lined top with three-quarter pierced brass gallery and gadrooned edge, above two mahogany-lined frieze drawers, ,one stamped 'GILLOWS LANCASTER', above a bobbin-turned band, on heavily-reeded and gadrooned ring-turned baluster legs, each on a rectangular stretcher with bobbin-turned edge, on gadrooned bun feet with sunk brass castors stamped 'YATES & HAMPER G'
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 45 in. (114.5 cm.) wide; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Supplied in 1822 to William, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (1748-1833) and by descent.

Literature

Gillows 1822 bill: 'A handsome pillar end Writing Table with Green Leather top Gilt Border 3ft 9 by 2ft 3...'

Lot Essay

Close variants of this pattern appear in the Gillow Estimate Sketch Books for 24 September 1824, no. 3371, and 10 October 1828, no. 3684. Both were for retail through Ferguson and Co, one to Mr Dagmall and the other to Captain Armitage. The 1828 pattern cost just over £9 5s but was fitted with end-drawers.

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