ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY SPECIMEN-WOOD NEST OF FIVE TABLES
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with a rectangular top, one in rosewood, one in partridgewood, one in bird's-eye maple, one in birch and one with a chessboard, with banding in differing combinations of satinwood, rosewood, bird's eye maple and partridgewood, on rosewood turned baluster spindle legs joined by stretchers, the smallest table with dished compartment between the stretchers and a later drawer below the top
The largest table 30¾ in. (78 cm.) high; 23¾ in. (60.5 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43 cm.) deep (5)

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Lot Essay

There is a set of quartetto tables of this type at Leighton Hall, Lancashire, which is likely to have been supplied by Gillows circa 1810 (R. Edwards & M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet Makers, rev. ed., London, 1955, p. 221, fig. 193). Leighton Hall was bought by Richard Gillow in 1822 from his cousin, Thomas Worswick. Another similar set was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 17 November 1983, lot 37. It formed part of a group of furniture supplied by Gillows to William Senhouse in the West Indies. A further nest of five tables of this pattern was sold in the Michael Lipitch II sale, Christie's, London, 4 October 2001, lot 116.

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