ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS OF LANCASTER, CIRCA 1790

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CLOTHES-PRESS
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS OF LANCASTER, CIRCA 1790
The rectangular moulded cornice above two panelled doors crossbanded in tulipwood enclosing four slides, above two short and two long drawers, on shaped bracket feet, one slide lacking, front panels to front feet replaced
80 in. (205 cm.) high; 50 in. (127 cm.) wide; 22 in. (57.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This wardrobe form on scalloped bracket feet, introduced around 1780, was popularised in 1788 by an engraved plate (no 97) in Messrs. A. Hepplewhite & Co.s, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterers Guide, 1788. Its French hollow-cornered tablets of Messrs. Gillow of London and Lancaster best birching mahogany are accompanied by golden reed handles that frame flowered paterae according to their new pattern of the 1780s (see S. E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 2 vols. Woodbridge, 2008, vol. 11, pl. D9a).

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