ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
Attributed to Gillows
The rounded rectangular twin-flap top above a panelled frieze with two mahogany-lined drawers, one divided and two simulated drawers to the reverse, the reeded trestle end-supports joined by a double arched high-stretcher and with central pierced balustraded panel, above a channelled lozenge block with ring-turned boss and on downswept feet with foliate brass caps and castors, previously with two further bobbins at the base of each end-support
58in. (147.5cm.) wide, extended; 29in. (74cm.) high; 24in. (61cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The reed-enriched pedestals, with Etruscan-scrolled 'claws', are of Grecian-lyre form with spindle 'strings' and lozenge-enriched bars. The pedestal pattern, including the palm-wrapped castor-sockets, features in Gillows of London and Lancaster's 1818 Estimate Sketch Book (nos. 2079 and 2084) and is illustrated in G. Wills, Craftsmen and Cabinet-makers of Classic English Furniture, Edinburgh, 1974, pp. 117-8 and figs. 108 and 109.
A writing-table with similar end-supports was sold by Julian Byng, Esq. in these Rooms, 8 July 1993, lot 63.

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