CIRCA 1820, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOW

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A REGENCY BIRDS-EYE MAPLE AND KINGWOOD CROSSBANDED PRESS CUPBOARD
CIRCA 1820, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOW
The three-quarter gallery above three drawers and two central doors enclosing four slides with mahogany fronts, flanked by five drawers, on a mahogany plinth with later bun feet, the central frieze drawer inscribed in chalk 'Best Landing', with part-ebony handles, the undersides of the drawers numbered in pencil and several also inscribed 'No 2'
56 in. (142 cm.) high; 89 in. (226 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This form of Lady's wardrobe, combining drawer-nests and 'clothes press' commode, relates to the 'dwarf' wardrobes supplied for Tatton Park, Cheshire in 1812 by Gillow of London and Lancaster. This wardrobe of silken-figured maple, is fitted with a china-railed gallery, and is likely to be the 'Wardrobe' recorded in the '1839' inventory together with a 'Maple' chest-of-drawers in the Duchess of Bedford's Dressing Room.

This lot is a near pair to lot 899, sold from Property of Two Ducal Collections, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire; Christie's House Sale, 20-21 September 2004.

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