ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY CLOTHES-PRESS
Attributed to Gillows
The rectangular moulded cornice above a pair of panelled doors, flanked by reeded uprights, enclosing two sliding shelves, a later brass rail and two further later rails, each end with a panelled door with shallow hanging compartment and four pegs, on urn-shaped feet, the interior previously further fitted, the reverse with fragmentary dealers label for 'G..n..(?) W. Holt & Co.'
83½ in. (212 cm.) high; 54½ in. (138.5 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The clothes-press is designed in the elegant antique manner popularised by Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803, and introduced by Gillows of London and Lancaster. The presses' sunk-tablet panels of fine flame-figured mahogany are wreathed by reeded ribbons looped in Grecian frets at the corners; while its Egyptian reeded pilasters terminate in Grecian-urn feet. Its various elements featured in the Gillow pattern book entitled The Cabinetmakers General Sketch Book such as the pattern for a low wardrobe executed in 1811 (N. Goodison and J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park', Furniture History, 1970, pl. 10a).

Another clothes-press of this pattern, but with different feet, was sold anonymously, Sotheby's New York, 21 January 1995, lot 256.

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