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Lot Essay
Related console table designs are illustrated in A Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design Antique Collectors Club 1977. (See pp. 147, 156, 505, 541, 177 & 427).
Gillows made furniture with similar lion's head monopodia including a console table Christie's London, March 4th 2004 lot 87. The lion's head monopodia relate to those on a suite of giltwood seat furniture supplied in 1805 to Colonel Hughes for Kinmel Park, Denbighshire by the Oxford Street firm of Gillows. A daybed from the latter suite was sold by Mr Edward Sarofim, Christie's London, 16 November 1995, lot 143 and its pair is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, no. W.38-1930 (illustrated in F. Collard, Regency Furniture, 1985, p. 102, pl. 11). A further example is illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, rev. ed., 1965, p. 81, fig. 192.
Gillows made furniture with similar lion's head monopodia including a console table Christie's London, March 4th 2004 lot 87. The lion's head monopodia relate to those on a suite of giltwood seat furniture supplied in 1805 to Colonel Hughes for Kinmel Park, Denbighshire by the Oxford Street firm of Gillows. A daybed from the latter suite was sold by Mr Edward Sarofim, Christie's London, 16 November 1995, lot 143 and its pair is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, no. W.38-1930 (illustrated in F. Collard, Regency Furniture, 1985, p. 102, pl. 11). A further example is illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, rev. ed., 1965, p. 81, fig. 192.