A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TALLBOY

BY GILLOWS

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TALLBOY
By Gillows
The moulded rectangular cornice, above a pair of short drawers and three long graduated drawers, the lower section with two long graduated drawers, on tapering bracket feet, the top of one drawer front stamped 'GILLOWS.LANCASTER'
73 in. (186.5 cm.) high; 50 in. (127 cm.) wide; 22 in. (58 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 12 February 1998, lot 520.

Lot Essay

A related 'Double Chest of Drawers' pattern, as well as the Grecian-scrolled feet, feature in A. Hepplewhite & Co., The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788 (pls. 53,54 and 87). This chest's fine quality mahogany is typical of Gillows furniture at this period, and this patterned foot appears in their 1790 Estimate Sketch Book (see L. Boynton (ed), Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig.154). The basic pattern for this 'chest upon chest' already featured in the 1786 Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows (21 December 1786, p. 476).

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