A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND CALAMANDER LIBRARY TABLE

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND CALAMANDER LIBRARY TABLE
CIRCA 1810, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS OF LANCASTER

The rounded rectangular top with calamander edge above a pair of frieze drawers, on double splayed trestle supports filled with spindles and with foliate-cast brass feet and casters
28½in. (72cm.) high, 41½in. (105cm.) wide, 23½in. (60cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This table is virtually identical to a drawing for a 'spindle end' table supplied by Gillow to Ferguson & Co. The firm of Ferguson, Whitesides & Co, upholsterers had taken over the Gillow premises at 176-7 Oxford Street, and continued to operate under their own name (G. Wills, Craftsmen and Cabinet-makers of Classic English Furniture, 1974, p.123, figs.109 and 110).

Other virtually identical examples include one illustrated in G. Wills, op. cit, p.117, fig.108 and another (without drawers) illustrated in B. Reade, Regency Antiques, 1953, pl.46. A center table with same calamander chanelling to the legs is illustrated in E.T. Joy, English Furniture 1800-1851, 1977, p.20.