ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD WRITING-TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With a pair of frieze drawers, on reeded baluster end-supports and rectangular platforms with bun feet, inscribed in pencil on the underside of one drawer '217', previously with a stretcher
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high; 47¾ in. (121.5 cm.) wide; 27½ in. (70 cm.) deep.

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Lot Essay

Close variants of this pattern appear in the Gillows Estimate Sketch Books for 24 September 1824, no. 3371, and 10 October 1828, no. 3684, one for a Mr Dagmall and the other to Captain Armitage. The 1828 pattern cost just over £9 5s but was fitted with end-drawers.
A galleried version of this table, with baize-lined top, was supplied in 1822 to William, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (d.1833) for Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, and sold in the Wentworth sale, Christie's, London, 8 July 1998, lot 83.

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