BY GILLOWS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY CLOTHES-PRESS
By Gillows
The rectangular moulded cornice above a pair of key-pattern panelled doors enclosing four part mahogany-lined slides, the lower section with four mahogany and paper-lined long drawers, the upper drawer with central oval panel flanked by cut-corned square panels, on bun feet, with turned rosewood handles, stamped once GILLOWS, LANCASTER
49in. (124cm.) wide; 92½in. (235cm.) high; 24½in. (62cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 18 April 1996, lot 127

Lot Essay

The press, with spherical stump feet and commode doors, with drapery-figured veneer framed by reeded and tablet-cornered ribbons, corresponds to that of a 'dwarf' clothes-press supplied to Tatton Park, Cheshire in 1811 and whose design survives in the firm's archives at the Westminster Library (see N. Goodison and J. Hardy 'Gillows at Tatton Park', Furniture History, 1970, pls. 10a and 11a).

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