ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1788

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CLOTHES-PRESS
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1788
The rectangular moulded and dentilled cornice above a husk-swagged frieze and a pair of doors enclosing crossbanded ovals above two short and two long drawers, on short splayed feet, restorations to veneers, lacking slides, the handles replaced, the backboard with fragmentary paper label inscribed 'MR SAMUEL RAWLINSON MANCHESTER'
79 in. (200.5 cm.) high; 50¼ in. (128 cm.) wide; 25¾ in. (63 cm.) deep

Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to Samuel Rawlinson, Esq., Manchester.

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Lot Essay

Mr Samuel Rawlinson of Manchester was a client of Gillows in the late 1780s, a period when the firm are known to have produced a version of exactly this press. Mr Rawlinson is recorded in the Estimate Sketch Book as buying a desk, of the pattern later most famously used by Sir Walter Scott, and a ladderback chair (no. 256). The contemporary clothes-press had a pierced cresting and was supplied for Farnley Hall, Yorkshire.

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