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Lot Essay
Gillows of London and Lancaster featured this Grecian pattern trestle, with spindles, in their 1818 Sketch Book (E. T. Joy, English Regency Furniture 1800-1851, London, 1977, p. 20). This trestle pattern also featured on a rosewood table, with ringed lion-pattern handles, supplied for Great Tew Park, Oxfordshire, sold by the late Major Eustace Robb, Great Tew Park, Christie's house sale, 27 May 1987, lot 147. A related table, also fitted with scrolled brackets at the top of the trestles, was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 9 July 1998, lot 90.
The bowed hinged ends on the current table relate to a pair of tables that was commissioned by Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson (1767-1818) for the library at Shugborough, Staffordshire, in the first decade of the 19th century, when alterations were being carried out the by the architect Samuel Wyatt (d. 1807). The tables are attributed to the firm of Gillow of London and Lancaster, who had a close working relationship with the Wyatt dynasty of architects. Another table with bowed ends and attributed to Gillows, was sold from the Collection of the Late Mrs Susan Remington-Hobbs, daughter of Lady Baillie of Lowndes House and Leeds Castle was sold Christie's, London, 2 May 2002, lot 32.
The bowed hinged ends on the current table relate to a pair of tables that was commissioned by Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson (1767-1818) for the library at Shugborough, Staffordshire, in the first decade of the 19th century, when alterations were being carried out the by the architect Samuel Wyatt (d. 1807). The tables are attributed to the firm of Gillow of London and Lancaster, who had a close working relationship with the Wyatt dynasty of architects. Another table with bowed ends and attributed to Gillows, was sold from the Collection of the Late Mrs Susan Remington-Hobbs, daughter of Lady Baillie of Lowndes House and Leeds Castle was sold Christie's, London, 2 May 2002, lot 32.