A REGENCY MAHOGANY SOFA TABLE

BY GILLOWS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY SOFA TABLE
By Gillows
The rounded rectangular twin-flap top above two frieze drawers and two simulated drawers to the reverse, on solid end-supports joined by an arched stretcher, on reeded scroll legs and later brass caps and castors, repair to one foot, split to stretcher, lacking one handle
60½in. (153.5cm.) wide; 27¾in. (70.5cm.) high; 26½in. (87cm.) deep

Provenance

Commissioned by John Lloyd Wynne (d. 1862) of Coed Coch, Denbighshire
Thence by descent

Lot Essay

The table, intended to accompany a Grecian sofa, has a single richly-figured mahogany panel running across the entire top, and with its pilaster-ends supported on Grecian-scrolled and reeded 'claws' it corresponds to Gillows' sketch-pattern of March 1807 accompanying the manufacturing costs for a 'Handsome Mahogany Sofa Table'. Although untitled the design may well be for this actual table (Gillows Estimate Sketch Book MSS no. 1810, Westminster Library).

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