Lot 234
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A PAIR OF MID-VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT, BURR-ELM AND PARCEL-GILT OCTAGONAL TRIPOD TABLES
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A PAIR OF MID-VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT, BURR-ELM AND PARCEL-GILT OCTAGONAL TRIPOD TABLES

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A PAIR OF MID-VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT, BURR-ELM AND PARCEL-GILT OCTAGONAL TRIPOD TABLES
Attributed to Gillows
Each with a tulipwood crossbanded top with Vitruvian-scrolled band and satinwood band, on a turned fluted baluster shaft with chandelles and foliage swags, on cabriole legs headed by foliage and with rectangular scrolled feet
26½ in. (67 cm.) high; 23 in. (58 cm.) diameter (2)
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Lot Essay

These tables are typical of the high quality furniture produced in the third-quarter of the 19th Century by the London and Lancaster firm of Gillows. Gillows' stamp appears on a related octagonal table with fluted column supports, sold by the Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Charitable Trust, Christie's South Kensington, 31 March 1993, lot 550 and on a related centre table sold anonymously, Phillips London, 22 May 2001, lot 127.

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