Lot 104
104
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE-FRONTED SIDEBOARD attributed to Gillows, the shaped rectangular top with boxwood edge and brass gallery with urn-finials, above four long graduated drawers flanked by four further graduated short drawers, on a moulded plinth and cabriole legs, the crossbar replaced

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE-FRONTED SIDEBOARD attributed to Gillows, the shaped rectangular top with boxwood edge and brass gallery with urn-finials, above four long graduated drawers flanked by four further graduated short drawers, on a moulded plinth and cabriole legs, the crossbar replaced
69¾in. (177cm.) wide; 52½in. (133.5cm.) high; 17¾in. (45cm.) deep
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to Elizabeth Brooke (d. 1809)

Lot Essay

A pattern for a related tripartite 'Serpentine Dressing Chest' with four tiers of drawers and bracket feet appears in, The Cabinet-Maker's London Book of Prices, 1788, pl. 20, fig. 1. This chest-of-drawers also relates to the base of writing-cabinet attributed to Messrs. Gillows that is now displayed at Temple Newsam House (see C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, 1978, no. 29

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