ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
Attributed to Gillows
The rounded rectangular twin-flap reeded crossbanded top above two frieze drawers to one side and two simulated frieze drawers to the other, on open trestle end-supports with three turned spindles and downswept legs with brass paw caps and castors, the underside with depository label inscribed 'Not', the stretchers replaced
28¼ in. (71.5 cm.) high; 63 in. (160 cm.) wide; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) deep

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Nott.

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Lot Essay

The elegant sofa table can be attributed to Gillows of London and Lancaster who made particular use of the downswept end-supports with scrolled 'claws' on many of their tables. A related calamander-banded writing-table by Gillows, has almost identical ends filled with spindles above a lozenge panel and relates to a sketch dated 1818 in their Estimate Sketch Books, number 2079 (G. Wills, Craftsmen and Cabinet-Makers of Classic English Furniture, Edinburgh, 1974, pp. 117-118, figs. 108-109).

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