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AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY CHAMBER WRITING-TABLE
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY CHAMBER WRITING-TABLE

BY GILLOWS, MID-19TH CENTURY

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY CHAMBER WRITING-TABLE
BY GILLOWS, MID-19TH CENTURY
With a leather-lined top and a hinged compartment, two frieze drawers and tapering, turned and reeded legs with brass-caps and castors, one drawer stamped 'GILLOW'
29 in. (74 cm.) high; 36 in. (91 cm.) wide; 20 ½ in. (52 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

This form of stamp of 'GILLOW' was in use by Gillows of London and Lancaster by the 1850s (S. Stuart, 'Gillow Marks, Labels and Stamps 1770-1960', Regional Furniture, 1998). A sketch for a chamber writing-table with turned legs is recorded in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Book, no. 3839, dated 1831 (Westminster City Archive). Two related chamber writing-tables were offered anonymously, Christie's, London, 16 September 2004, lots 56 and 57.

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