ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD CABINETS-ON-STANDS
Attributed to Gillows
Each with a glazed rectangular cabinet with three-quarter pierced brass gallery and enclosing a shelf, on a stand with a rounded rectangular top above a frieze drawer, on ring-turned tapering legs with lappeted capitals and joined by a concave-fronted undertier, on gadrooned tapering feet, each with paper label printed 'MARIA HULTON', each inscribed to the top '1825' and one inscribed in ink 'No.1- Next Fire Place'
51½ in. (131 cm.) high; 29 in. (73.5 cm.) wide; 15 in. (38 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to William Hulton, Esq. (d. 1864) for Hulton Park, Lancashire, by descent to his wife Maria Hulton (d. 1866).

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Lot Essay

These elegant pier-cabinets were almost certainly commissioned for Hulton Park, Lancashire in 1825 and supplied by Gillows of London and Lancaster to William Hulton (d.1864), High Sheriff of Lancashire and Constable of Lancaster Castle. With their stretcher-stands for vases, and galleried and glazed cabinets for china display, they would have been appropriate furnishings for the mirrored window-piers of the fashionable drawing-room. Their pattern of wave-scrolled 'brass fret rim' features in Messrs Gillows' 1824 Estimate Sketch Book, together with patterns for related palm-capped columnar legs with reeded stumps (Westminster City Archives, Gillow MSS. nos. 3362 and 3366).

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