Lot Essay
Although there is nothing to directly link these chairs to the work of Gillows of Lancaster, the spindle-tied back legs feature on a suite of mid-18th Century chairs at Leighton Hall, Carnforth, believed to have been made by Robert Gillow Senior (retired 1769) (S. Sartin and S. Stuart, Gillow Chairs and Fashion, Blackburn, 1991, pp. 15 and 16). This combined with the patronage of Gillows towards the end of the 18th Century by the Wilbrahams, would point to Gillows as the possible makers of these chairs for Roger Wilbraham (d. 1754), father of George Wilbraham (d. 1813) of Delamere House, Cheshire.