Lot 60
60
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND SPECIMEN MARBLE CENTRE TABLE attributed to Gillows, the rectangular top inset with lapis, barocatelle, quartz, verde antico, porphyry, Egyptian alabaster and other specimens, within a black and white marble border, above a plain frieze and on canted square legs

Details
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND SPECIMEN MARBLE CENTRE TABLE attributed to Gillows, the rectangular top inset with lapis, barocatelle, quartz, verde antico, porphyry, Egyptian alabaster and other specimens, within a black and white marble border, above a plain frieze and on canted square legs
50in. (127cm.) wide; 33¼in. (84.5cm.) high; 33¼in. (84.5cm.) deep
Provenance
The specimen slab almost certainly acquired by Jonas Brooke (d. 1783) while on The Grand Tour
The base almost certainly commissioned by Elizabeth Brooke (d. 1809)

Lot Essay

With its characteristically figured frieze and handsome, plain design, this side table typifies furniture in the George III 'antique' manner produced by Messr's Gillows of Lancaster. In the 1840 inventory, it is listed in The Hall as 'Ditto (mahogany side table) with top inlaid with spe-cimens of Italian marble'

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