A REGENCY ROSEWOOD GAMES-TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD GAMES-TABLE
Attributed to Gillows
The cut-cornered rounded rectangular top with central removable sliding flap inlaid with chequer board to the reverse enclosing a backgammon board, the beaded panelled frieze with central mahogany- lined drawer and slide to each end, on trestle end-supports with pierced baluster spindles, on beaded scrolled downswept foliate feet, with label to the inside of the drawer inscribed 'SIR J. D. ASTLEY, BART. Room Grand No. Corridor 1885' and with remains of further label inscribed 'URTIS', restorations
34¼in. (87cm.) wide; 28¾in. (73cm.) high; 20in. (51cm.) deep

Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to Sir John Dugdale Astley, 1st Bt. (1778-1842) for Everley House, Wiltshire

Lot Essay

This multi-purpose table, incorporating boards of chess and backgammon, is conceived in the Regency Grecian manner with Apollo-lyre trestles closely relating to an 1818 pattern for a 'spindle end' table supplied to Ferguson & Co. and illustrated in Gillows of London and Lancaster's Estimate Sketch Books (G. Wills, Craftsmen and Cabinet-Makers of Classic English Furniture, Edinburgh, 1974, p. 118, fig. 109).

A similar library table, also attributed to Gillows, was sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 20 January 1996, lot 538.

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