ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY WORK-TABLE
Attributed to Gillows
The rectangular top with scrolling raised edge above a frieze with two end-drawers and a pull-out frame for a work basket and a gadrooned edge, on turned fluted and lotus-leaf trestle end-supports with paired columns to the lower section, joined by a turned baluster stretcher and on cabriole legs headed by a flower spray and terminating in foliate feet on brass castors, lacking work basket, the top with stains, indistinctly inscribed in pencil Thomas...
27¼ in. (69 cm.) wide; 29 in. (74 cm.) high; 19¼ in. (49 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The pattern for this tray-top table, apart from minor variations, features in the 1826 sketch-book of Gillows of London and Lancaster (Westminster City Library, Gillows MSS no. 3480).
A very similar matched pair of tables were sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 9 July 1993, lot 268.

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