A REGENCY MAHOGANY CHAMBER WRITING-TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1810

細節

A REGENCY MAHOGANY CHAMBER WRITING-TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1810
The rectangular top with reeded edge and fitted with a hinged lidded compartment with penslide and fitments for ink wells, above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer between rounded tablet blocks on turned and reeded tapering legs with brass caps and casters, the underside of top and drawer indistinctly signed in pencil H.... W....(?)
29 in. (74 cm.) high, 28 in. (71 cm.) wide, 20 in. (51 cm.) deep

來源

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 September 1997, lot 145.

拍品專文

A sketch for this type of table appears in Gillows Estimate Sketch Book, 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 closely related chamber writing-table was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 14 June 2001, lot 177. Two further examples were also sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 1 July 2004, lots 41 and 42.