A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE

IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE
In the Manner of Gillows
The rectangular shaped top with a three quarter gallery, above three frieze-drawers, one fitted and one previously fitted, on ring-turned and reeded tapering legs and toupie feet, restorations to the back right leg
48 in. (122 cm.) wide; 30 in. (76 cm.) high; 23¼ in. (59 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This elegant table, with its concave recess, reeded edge and low three-quarter gallery, is related in design to the dressing-tables recorded in Gillow's Account Book under 11 August 1811 as 'a Handsome Mahogany five-drawer Dressing Table with rim and on turned reeded legs £6.16.6', illustrated in C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, London, 1978, Vol. II, p. 382, fig. 500.
A similar dressing-table was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 5 June 1997, lot 88.

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