Lot Essay
An almost identical sideboard to this, with carved angles of stylized foliate sprays and urns, is attributed to Gillows, by Phillips of Hitchen in their advertisement in the Connoisseur, June 1952, for the forthcoming Grosvenor House Exhibition. It was apparently supplied to the first Lord Ribblesdale, Gisburn Park, Yorkshire, after his marriage to Mrs Piozzi in 1794.
Gillows is recorded as having done some work for Gisburn park in 1795, although it is not contained in his Estimate Sketch Book of that date. A similar sideboard with the same palm-leaf collars, fluted legs and with a concave fluted frieze and gallery, dated 1797, is illustrated in L. Boynton Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Leeds, 1995, fig. 91.
A related serpentine sideboard with a simulated fluted edge was offered anonymously, Sotheby's London, 22 November 1991, lot 93.
Gillows is recorded as having done some work for Gisburn park in 1795, although it is not contained in his Estimate Sketch Book of that date. A similar sideboard with the same palm-leaf collars, fluted legs and with a concave fluted frieze and gallery, dated 1797, is illustrated in L. Boynton Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Leeds, 1995, fig. 91.
A related serpentine sideboard with a simulated fluted edge was offered anonymously, Sotheby's London, 22 November 1991, lot 93.