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Lot Essay
Close variants of this pattern appear in the Gillows Estimate Sketch Book for 24 September 1824, no. 3371, and 10 October 1828, no. 3684, one for a Mr Dagmall and the other to Captain Armitage. The 1828 pattern cost just over £9.5s but was fitted with end-drawers.
A galleried version of this table, with baize-lined top, was supplied in 1822 to William, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (d.1833) for Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, and sold in the Wentworth sale, Christie's, London, 8 July 1998, lot 83. Another related example, also in rosewood, was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 16 September 2004, lot 33.
N. & T. Dixon are recorded as Gillows craftsmen employed at Tatton Park, Cheshire, in 1811-1812. Their signatures are found on the underside of drawers on some bedroom furniture and Thos. Dixon & J. Dixon are listed in the archives as working on the library bookcases (N. Goodison & J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park', Furniture History, 1970, p. 6 & n. 17). The inscription with 'Senre' appended to the surname Dixon, suggests a Dixon family involvement with the firm of Gillows: the craftsman in the present case may have been the father or elder brother.
A galleried version of this table, with baize-lined top, was supplied in 1822 to William, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (d.1833) for Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, and sold in the Wentworth sale, Christie's, London, 8 July 1998, lot 83. Another related example, also in rosewood, was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 16 September 2004, lot 33.
N. & T. Dixon are recorded as Gillows craftsmen employed at Tatton Park, Cheshire, in 1811-1812. Their signatures are found on the underside of drawers on some bedroom furniture and Thos. Dixon & J. Dixon are listed in the archives as working on the library bookcases (N. Goodison & J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park', Furniture History, 1970, p. 6 & n. 17). The inscription with 'Senre' appended to the surname Dixon, suggests a Dixon family involvement with the firm of Gillows: the craftsman in the present case may have been the father or elder brother.