A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD GAMES-TABLE

AFTER A DESIGN BY GILLOWS

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A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD GAMES-TABLE
After a design by Gillows
The shaped moulded top with removable sliding chest enclosing a maroon velvet-lined backgammon interior, above a frieze drawer, flanked by candle-slides to each side, on trestle-end supports filled with balusters and joined by a ring-turned baluster stretcher, on downswept legs and claw feet, brass castors
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high; 28¼ in. (72 cm.) wide; 18 in. (45.5 cm) deep

Lot Essay

The spindle-lyre trestles relate to a pattern in the 1818 Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows of London and Lancaster executed for Ferguson, Whitesides & Co., who traded from Gillow's Oxford Street premises under their own name (G. Willis, Classic English Furniture, London 1974).

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