A REGENCY MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS OF LANCASTER

The rectangular moulded top with concave centre surmounted by a three-quarter reeded gallery with shaped back centred by a palmette, above a central frieze drawer and kneehole flanked by two drawers at either side, the reverse with four simulated panels, on turned reeded tapering baluster legs headed by a curved panel and terminating in brass castors, with fitted glass top
46in. (117cm.) wide; 35½in. (90cm.) high; 27in. (68.5cm.) deep

Provenance

Probably supplied to Morton John Davison, Esq. (1778-1841), for Beamish Park, Co. Durham
Thence by indirect descent with the house to Robert Duncombe Shafto, Esq., of Beamish Park and subsequently of Bavington Hall

Lot Essay

The dressing-table with turned reeded legs has a hollow-centred and moulded top and a palmette centering its Grecian-scrolled back. This is en suite with the wardrobe (lot 153), and corresponds to a pattern that features in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books for July 1818, no. 2080

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