Lot Essay
The cabinet's leopard monopodia relate to those on a suite of furniture supplied circa 1805 by Gillows of Oxford Street, London, to Colonel Hughes for Kinmel Park, Denbighshire. One of the daybeds from the Kinmell Park suite was sold from the collection of Mr. Edward Sarofim in these Rooms, 16 November 1995, lot 143 and its pair is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. no. W.38-1930). A related pier table with leopard monopodia, and attributed to Gillows, was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 6 February 1997, lot 175.