ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY,

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A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD CENTRE TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY,
The circular top with cut-brass foliate border and plain frieze, supported by a hexagonal column with reeded mouldings on a tripartite base with acanthus-clasped paw feet
28 ½ in. (72.5 cm.) high; 47 ½ in. (120.5 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Probably supplied to Morton John Davison, Esq. (1778-1841), for Beamish Park, Co. Durham
Thence by indirect descent with the house to Robert Duncombe Shafto, Esq., of Beamish Park and subsequently of Bavington Hall
Sold The Property of Mrs R.D.Shafto, Christie's, London, 21 September 1995, lot 170.

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Lot Essay

Beamish had been inherited by a branch of the Shafto family of Whitworth Park, Co. Durham, in 1844. It had been held by the Eden and Davison families until 1844 when it passed to Thomas Duncombe Shafto. Two generations of the Shafto family changed their name to Eden until 1904 when the house and estate passed to Slingsby Duncombe Shafto.
The Gillow furniture is likely to have been supplied to Morton John Eden (subsequently Davison, who died 1841) soon after he inherited the house and estate in 1812. He completely remodelled the house from 1813 and the style of the Gillow furniture suggests that it was acquired after that; a design for the table is illustrated in Gillows Estimate Sketch Book of 1822, No. 3146. The Gillow furniture is recorded in an inventory of Beamish Hall drawn up in 1913.

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