ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY EXTENDING DINING-TABLE
Attributed to Gillows
The rounded rectangular top with reeded edge above a plain frieze with moulded lower edge, on turned tapering reeded legs, brass caps and castors, fourteen clips, six leaves, with panelled storage box for the leaves, three leaves numbered '1', '5' and '6', one leaf with Roman numeral 'V', two of the leaves made out of one
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 64 in. (162.5 cm.) wide; 231 in. or 20'1" (612 cm.) long
The storage box: 69½ in. (176.5 cm.) high; 18 in. (45.5 cm.) wide; 34¼ in. (87 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

In 1813 Gillows of London and Lancaster supplied a very similar 'Set of mahogany Imperial dining tables on stout twined reeded legs and brass socket casters' for Broughton Hall, Yorkshire at a cost of 50 gns. Prior to this Richard Gillow had taken out a patent in 1800 for an extending table, known as the 'Patent Imperial dining-table' (M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1830, London, rev. ed., 1965, p. 64-65, fig. 130). A related example with well-spaced reeds and reeded edge to the top and almost certainly supplied to John, 2nd Marquess of Bute (d. 1848) either for Cardiff Castle or Luton Park, was sold by the Executors and Trustees of the Residue Funds of the 6th Marquess of Bute, in these Rooms, 3 July 1996, lot 43. A similarly large extending dining-table with reeded legs, but stamped 'T. Willson' was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 8 June 1995, lot 44.

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