ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY OPEN BOOKCASES
Attributed to Gillows
Each crossbanded in rosewood and with four graduating shelves, with turned tapering reeded supports, brass caps and castors
52¾ in. (134 cm.) high; 36½ in. (92.5 cm) wide; 15 in. (38 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Probably supplied to Robert Ferguson, M.P. (d.1840) for Raith House, Kirkcaldy, Fife, and by descent.

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Lot Essay

The pair of bookcases have recessed reeded columns in the Pompeian manner and are framed by 'ribboned' rosewood. In 1801, Gillows of London and Lancaster supplied a closely related pair of bookcases to Luke Dillon, 2nd Lord Clonbrock to furnish his new library at his ancestral home, Clonbrock in Co. Galway. They were sold by Mr. and Mrs. Luke Dillon-Mahon, Clonbrock, Christie's house sale, 1 November 1976, lot 12 (illustrated).
The fashionable 'moving bookcase' of this type featured in Thomas Sheraton's Appendix to the Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1802 (pl. 23).

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