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A REGENCY MAHOGANY CHAMBER WRITING-TABLE
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A REGENCY MAHOGANY CHAMBER WRITING-TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY CHAMBER WRITING-TABLE
Attributed to Gillows
The rounded rectangular reeded top with a lidded well to the rear, enclosing four compartments fitted with two glass ink-pots, above a frieze drawer, on ring-turned reeded legs, on tapering feet with brass caps and castors
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide; 19½ in. (50 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

A sketch for this type of table appears in Gillows Estimate Sketch Books, dated 1810, and called by them a 'chamber writing-table' (No. 344/144, p. 11, Westminster City Archives).
Gillows supplied four tables of this pattern in 1811 to T.W. Egerton for Tatton Park, Cheshire (N. Goodison and J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park, Cheshire', Furniture History, 1970, pp. 28, 30, 32 and 35, pl. 16B).

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