ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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An early Victorian walnut settee
Attributed to Gillows
Bobbin-turned overall, the rectangular back with pierced splats above conforming open side arms, with part-padded arms, loose seat and back cushions and side bolsters, covered in William Morris willow-pattern material, above a bobbin-turned seat rail, on ring-turned legs, with brass castors
72in. (183cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

The seat frame enriched with Elizabethan 'spindle' turning was popularised through a chair pattern by George Bullock (d. 1813) illustrated in R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, September 1817. Related spindle enrichments featured on a suite of George IV furniture supplied to Peter Langford-Brooke (d. 1840) for Mere Hall, Cheshire and attributed to Messrs. Gillow of London and Lancaster (see Christie's Sale Catalogue, Mere Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire, Christie's House Sale, 23 May 1994, lots 85-91).

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