ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1820

This form of 'wine' or 'social' table was intended for after dinner drinking with the table pulled up infront of a fire and the decanter being passed on a pivoted coaster. Two further tables are known to have been supplied by Gillows, one to R.O. Gascoigne at Parlington Hall in 1810 (C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Leeds, 1978, vol.II, p.376, no.494. The other table was supplied to William, 2nd Baron Bolton, (1782-1850) for Hackwood and sold Christie's House sale, Hackwood Park, 20-22 April 1998, lot 162, (£12,650).