A REGENCY MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT WARDROBE

BY GILLOWS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT WARDROBE
By Gillows
En suite with the preceding lot, a tall hanging cupboard to each side, both fitted with three later shallow shelves, the hanging cupboards lacking some original fitting, the right side faded
100 in. (254 cm.) wide; 90 in. (229 cm.) high; 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Supplied in 1813 to William Powlett, 2nd Baron Bolton (1782-1850), for his own Dressing Room at 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, Lord Bolton's Dressing Room: 'A Mahogany wardrobe with wings one fitted up for hanging Boots and shoes the other for hanging great coats'.
Gillows Bill, July 1813, Lord Bolton's Dressing Room: 'To a Mahogany column corner Wing Wardrobe same as above, one wing with rails and pins for Boots and Shoes the other lined with Baize and rails for hanging Great Coats 52Gs' invoiced for £54 12s.

Lot Essay

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).

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