Lot Essay
Gillows started numbering furniture circa 1870.
These stands are designed in the Louis XVI style which was fashionable in the 1860's and 1870's. Among the 18th Century makers who used the distinctive dot-filled parquetry was Adam Weisweiler (1744-1820) on a sewing-table that is now in the Wallace Collection, London, and which once belonged to the Empress Josephine (see: A.Pradère, French Furniture Makers, London, 1989, p.403).
These stands are designed in the Louis XVI style which was fashionable in the 1860's and 1870's. Among the 18th Century makers who used the distinctive dot-filled parquetry was Adam Weisweiler (1744-1820) on a sewing-table that is now in the Wallace Collection, London, and which once belonged to the Empress Josephine (see: A.Pradère, French Furniture Makers, London, 1989, p.403).