BY GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY CHAMBER-TABLE
BY GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rounded rectangular top with hinged flap enclosing a pen-tray and two glass ink-wells above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer, on reeded tapering legs, with brass caps and castors, the handles replaced, the drawer stamped 'GILLOWS . LANCASTER', the underside of the drawer inscribed in pencil 'HPW 10504'
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 16½ in. (42 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A sketch for this type of table appears in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books, dated 1810, and called by them a 'chamber writing-table' (No. 344/144, p. 11, Westminster City Archives).
Gillows supplied four tables of this pattern in 1811 to T.W. Egerton for Tatton Park, Cheshire (N. Goodison and J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park, Cheshire', Furniture History, 1970, pp. 28, 30, 32 and 35, pl. 16B).
A chamber table of closely related form was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 14 June 2001, lot 177.

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