ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A MATCHED PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY WASH-STANDS
Attributed to Gillows
Each with reeded three-quarter gallery above a bowfront top with central hole for a washbowl, one with a pair of simulated drawers and the other with a single simulated drawer, on turned tapering reeded legs and tapering baluster feet, each veneered to the reverse, lacking one handle, one with paper label inscribed in pencil '...retery Regt. Room', minor variations in height
One: 37¼ in. (94.5 cm.) high; the other 38 in. (96.5 cm.) high; 30¼ in. (77 cm.) wide; 20½ in. (52 cm.) deep (2)

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Lot Essay

The table legs, with reed-enriched spheres in the 'antique' or Egyptian manner, correspond to an 1803 'pillar or column' pattern popularised by Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, London, 1803; and feature on the fine mahogany bedroom furniture illustrated in the contemporary Estimate Sketch Books of Gillows of London and Lancaster (Westminster City Archives MSS).

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