BY GILLOWS, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT GENTLEMAN'S WARDROBE
BY GILLOWS, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular moulded cornice above a plain frieze and a pair of panelled doors, enclosing, six slides, the base centred by three long drawers, flanked by a conforming door to either side, one enclosing a hanging space, the other with later shelves and compartments, on bun feet
84 in. (213 cm.) high; 90 in. (229 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A related 'Handsome ...Wing Wardrobe' of this form, with flame-figured mahogany framed in reed-banded and Grecian-fretted tablets, was supplied to William Powlett, 2nd Baron Bolton (1782-1850) for Hackwood, Hampshire by the Lancaster firm of Gillows; several similar wardrobes are recorded in the 1813 'Gillows Memorandum' (the related wardrobe amongst others was sold by the late 2nd Viscount Camrose, Christie's house sale, Hackwood 18-22 April 1998, lot 368). Their 1806 Estimate Sketch Book contains a related pattern; while the vase-shaped stump feet appear on a low wardrobe pattern in the firm's Estimate Sketch Books (see N. Goodison & J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park', Furniture History, 1970, pl. 11A).

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