Lot Essay
This pattern and quality of 'pillar' dining-table 'on 4 large Claws' corresponds to 'setts' supplied by Gillows to Lady Blount and to Sir J. Shaw Stuart (sic) and sketched in their August 1798 and May 1801 Estimate Books preserved in the Westminster Library (see J. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition, New York, 1982, figs. 95 and 96). Another table of this pattern was supplied to William Tatton Egerton (d. 1806) for Tatton Park, Cheshire and corresponds to another stamped seven-pillar table sold at Sotheby's New York, 24 October 1992, lot 245.