Lot 132
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY EXTENDING DINING-TABLE
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY EXTENDING DINING-TABLE

BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1860

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY EXTENDING DINING-TABLE
BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1860
The rounded rectangular top with four extra leaves, each with added plain frieze, on octagonal tapering baluster legs, brass caps and castors, stamped twice 'GILLOWS LANCASTER', ten brass clips and two brass screws
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 190¾ in. (484.5 cm.) long, fully extended; 62 in. (157.5 cm.) wide
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Lot Essay

The robust table legs, with their chamfered and turned pillars, relate to that of a chair pattern illustrated in Thomas King's Modern Style of Cabinet Work Exemplified, 1829. The fashion remained popular with Gillows' clients and was used for instance on the parlour chairs supplied by Gillows of London and Lancaster for the Judges' Lodgings, Lancaster in the 1860s (S. Sartin, Gillow Chairs and Fashion,1991, p. 38).

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