ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY RATCHETTED READING-STAND
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Originally the top-section of a music-stand, with lacquered-brass fixing
16 in. (41 cm.) wide
Together with an early Victorian walnut and brass adjustable reading-stand with maker's label 'FROM J.CARTER, NORTH'S PATENT 6 NEW CAVANISH ST., GREAT PORTLAND ST., LONDON, W.' and further stamped 'NORTH'S PATENT' and 'NORTH BIRMINGHAM' - 14 in. (35½ cm.) wide (2)

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Lot Essay

Such reading-stands were originally fitted to bergeres in the French antique manner, such as those invoiced in 1811 by Gillows for the library designed by the architect William Atkinson (d. 1839) for Broughton Hall, Yorkshire. Described as '2 mahogany Uxbridge chairs with cane backs, seats, and wings, red morocco cushions for back and seats, each 12 gns' (C. Hussey, English Country Houses: Late Georgian, Glasgow, 1958, p. 95, fig. 166), their title derived from chairs supplied by the firm in 1807 to Henry Bayly, 1st Earl of Uxbridge.

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