Lot 28
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A SET OF FOUR REGENCY GONCALO ALVEZ DINING-CHAIRS by Gillows, each with waisted heart-shaped back with central floral patera between chanelled anthemia above a beaded tablet, with caned seat and yellow and ivory floral-patterned silk squab cushion, the panelled seat-rail with anthemion rounded angles, on turned tapering reeded legs and turned tapering feet, one stamped GILLOWS. LANCASTER, three with pencil inscription Dixon, one with inscription J Lanson (4)

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A SET OF FOUR REGENCY GONCALO ALVEZ DINING-CHAIRS by Gillows, each with waisted heart-shaped back with central floral patera between chanelled anthemia above a beaded tablet, with caned seat and yellow and ivory floral-patterned silk squab cushion, the panelled seat-rail with anthemion rounded angles, on turned tapering reeded legs and turned tapering feet, one stamped GILLOWS. LANCASTER, three with pencil inscription Dixon, one with inscription J Lanson (4)

Lot Essay

Goncalo Alvez is one of the rarest and most exotic tropical hardwoods that were used by English furniture-makers in the early 19th Century. A bookcase by George Bullock in this wood is illustrated in C.Wainwright ed., George Bullock Cabinet-Maker, London, 1988, pp.101-3, no.39.

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