Lot Essay
This library-table's plinth-supported trestle ends on festive lion-paw feet, as well as the bracket-buttressed pilasters tied by stretchers, feature on a table illustrated in Messrs. Gillow's room plans preserved at the Victoria and Albert Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Drawings, no.E47-1952).
A very similar library-table, designed in the 'antique' manner with pillars, standards, trusses and festive lion-paw feet, appears in Messrs. Gillows' Estimate Sketch Book for May 1823 (no. 3252)
A related type of table, of less elaborate decoration and with single pilasters, was attributed to Gillows, when sold by Lord Brownlow at Christie's House Sale, Belton House, Lincolnshire, 30 April - 2 May, 1984, lot 88
This is probably the 'writing table with leather top' recorded in the Library in the 1840 Inventory
A very similar library-table, designed in the 'antique' manner with pillars, standards, trusses and festive lion-paw feet, appears in Messrs. Gillows' Estimate Sketch Book for May 1823 (no. 3252)
A related type of table, of less elaborate decoration and with single pilasters, was attributed to Gillows, when sold by Lord Brownlow at Christie's House Sale, Belton House, Lincolnshire, 30 April - 2 May, 1984, lot 88
This is probably the 'writing table with leather top' recorded in the Library in the 1840 Inventory