A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS OF LANCASTER

The rounded rectangular top above two short panelled drawers at either side and panelled ends, above a beaded rim and two panelled trestle end-supports joined by a baluster stretcher, with scrolling base on scrolling foliate paw feet and brass castors
55¾in. (141.5cm.) wide; 29½in. (74.5cm.) high; 33¼in. (84.5cm.) deep

Provenance

Probably supplied to Morton John Davison, Esq. (1778-1841), for Beamish Park, Co. Durham
Thence by indirect descent with the house to Robert Duncombe Shafto, Esq., of Beamish Park and subsequently of Bavington Hall

Lot Essay

The elliptic-ended writing-table, conceived en suite with the 'loo' table (lot 170), has truss-supported trestles that are tied by a turned stretcher and supported by plinths with bacchic-paws emerging from acanthus scrolls. Its trestle-ends, which derive from a 'sofa table' pattern illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet-Dictionary, 1804, p. 28, correspond to those of 'sofa table' patterns of 1813, 1821 and 1823 illustrated in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books, nos. 1926, 3126 and 3252

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