A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BREAKFAST-TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BREAKFAST-TABLE
Attributed to Gillows
The hinged crossbanded oval top inlaid with boxwood and ebony lines and crossbanded in satinwood, on a turned spreading column and four downswept square tapering reeded legs, brass caps and castors
53½ in. (136 cm.) wide; 27½ in. (70 cm.) high; 42¼ in. (107.5 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

Patterns for related medallion tables, with hinged tops for storage against the wall, were known as 'snap' tables. A sketch of a 'snap' table, with Grecian-scrolled 'claw' terminating in brass blocks and castors, features in the 1798 Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows of London and Lancaster, but in view of this table's 'purple-wood' ribbon inlay matching that of the two tables (lots 10 and 11), it seems likely that Gillows also supplied it in 1788 (L. Boynton (ed.), Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 68).

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