Lot 54
54
THE STUDY
A REGENCY ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE attributed to Gillows, crossbanded in mahogany and inlaid with ebony and boxwood lines, the rounded rectangular twin-flap top above a pair of frieze drawers, on spreading rectangular end-supports joined by an arched stretcher and downswept legs with brass caps and castors

Details
A REGENCY ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE attributed to Gillows, crossbanded in mahogany and inlaid with ebony and boxwood lines, the rounded rectangular twin-flap top above a pair of frieze drawers, on spreading rectangular end-supports joined by an arched stretcher and downswept legs with brass caps and castors
59in. (150cm.) wide; 28¼in. (72cm.) high; 25in. (63.5cm.) deep
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to Thomas Langford-Brooke (d.1815)

Lot Essay

A related sofa table, supplied by Gillows in 1803 to Stephen Tempest of Broughton Hall, Yorkshire, is illustrated in C. Hussey, Late Georgian 1800-1840, London 1958, p.97. fig 173

This 'Rosewood sofa table' is recorded in the Second Drawing Room in the 1840 Inventory

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