A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED FOUR-POST BED

BY GILLOWS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED FOUR-POST BED
By Gillows
The rectangular canopy with cavetto cornice painted in ochre, brown and green with lappeted frieze, and shaped pelmet and sun-burst lining with central cartouche, above a pair of reeded baluster columns, with brass bolt-covers, on castors, with curtains and a padded headboard, covered in pale green and gold damask, comprising: a mattress and box-spring, bedspread, valence, a pair of side curtains, a back curtain, a pelmet, a pair of tie-backs, sixteen frame bolts (screws), four base rails, a central cross-strutt and slats, two back posts, three pieces of cornice, four covered toprails, The two front posts stamped 'GILLOWS LANCASTER', the painted cornice redecorated and with traces of original turquoise and white paint beneath
The mattress: 78 x 66 in. (198 x 167.5 cm.)
6 ft 6 in. long x 5 ft 6 in. wide;
The frame: 98 in. (250 cm.) high; 80 in. (203.5 cm.) long; 66 in. (169 cm.) deep

拍品專文

The bed's decoratively painted pelmets combined with elegant mahogany pillars, reed-enriched in the antique or Egyptian manner with antique urns or vases, reflects the antique style promoted by Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1802. Its fine quality is typical of the work of Gillows of London and Lancaster at this period. Another Gillows bed of this pattern, but lacking the pillars' reeded sections, was sold by the Executors of the late Mrs. Helen Langford-Brooke, Mere Hall, Cheshire, Christie's house sale, 23 May 1994, lot 123.