ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY OPEN BOOKCASE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Crossbanded overall in rosewood, the rectangular three-quarter galleried top above five graduated shelves, the lowest shelf enclosed by reeded tapering columns, on later brass caps and castors, the back gallery replaced and the front edge of the top with four plugged holes
53 in. (134.5 cm.) high; 37½ in. (95 cm.) wide; 15½ in. (39.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The bookcase has recessed reeded columns in the Pompeian manner and is framed by 'ribboned' rosewood. In 1801, Gillows of London and Lancaster supplied a closely related pair of bookcases to Luke Dillon, 2nd Lord Clonbrock to furnish his new library at his ancestral home, Clonbrock in Co. Galway. They were sold by Mr and Mrs Luke Dillon-Mahon, Clonbrock, Christie's house sale, 1 November 1976, lot 12 (illustrated). Another very similar pair, probably supplied to Robert Ferguson, M.P. (d. 1840) for Raith House, Kirkcaldy, Fife, was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 6 July 2000, lot 84.
The fashionable 'moving bookcase' of this type featured in Thomas Sheraton's Appendix to the Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1802 (pl. 23).

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