POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE
Possibly by Gillows
The green leather-lined top with bowfront ends and crossbanded in satinwood, above two mahogany-lined frieze drawers to each long side, a drawer to each corner and a drawer to each short side, on turned tapering reeded legs headed by spirally-fluted recessed urns, brass caps and castors, restorations to the tops of the legs, the handles later
30½ in. (77.5 cm.) high; 66½ in. (169 cm.) wide; 47½ in. (120.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The table, with its reeded urn-capped columns and elliptic ends reflects the antique style popularised by Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803, and Encyclopaedia 1804-7. A related elliptic-ended and reeded table, likely to have been executed by Gillows of London and Lancaster for the 1st Lord Brownlow (d. 1807) at Belton House, Lincolnshire, was sold by The Lord Brownlow, Belton House, Christie's house sale, 30 April-2 May 1984, lot 88.

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