A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEVAL WORK-TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEVAL WORK-TABLE
Attributed to Gillows
En suite with the preceding lot and inlaid overall with boxwood and ebony lines, the crossbanded rectangular top with a draw-up screen, above a frieze drawer, on turned tapering fluted legs with stiff-leaf capitals, joined by a concave-cut three-quarter galleried undertier, minor losses to moulding and crossbanding, the screen lacking upholstery
21¾ in. (55 cm.) wide; 29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 16¼ in. (41.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to George Wilbraham (d. 1813) for Delamere House, Cheshire.
Thence by descent in the Wilbraham family, latterly of Sweet Briar Hall, Cheshire.

Lot Essay

The small writing-table with drawer, stretcher-tray and sliding silk-screen, was designed by Gillows of London and Lancaster for George and Maria Wilbraham's bedroom apartments at Delamere House, Cheshire. Apart from the stretcher, it corresponds to a pattern in the firm's Estimate Sketch Book for June 1788, for a 'sheveret' table supplied to George Wilbraham and described as a 'Shefe de frieze' table. It was manufactured by Samuel Cooper and Henry Gibson at a cost of £1.11.6½ (Gillows MSS, Westminster Library, Book 344/94, p. 328). With its fluted and palm-capped columnar legs and ribbon-band inlay, it reflects the antique fashion popularised by A. Hepplewhite & Co's, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, London, 1788.

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