Lot 298
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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD WRITING TABLE
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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD WRITING TABLE

AFTER A DESIGN BY GILLOWS, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD WRITING TABLE
AFTER A DESIGN BY GILLOWS, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
With a green leather lined top and two frieze drawers, on splayed standard end supports with turned spindles and pendant drops and with brass capped castors
29in. (74cm.) high, 44in. (112cm.) wide, 23in. (59cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

The end supports, of Grecian-lyre form with spindle 'strings', are derived from a pattern featured in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Book of 1818 (nos. 2079 and 2084), and illustrated in G, Wills, Craftsmen and Cabinet-Makers of Classic English Furniture, Edinburgh, 1974, pp. 117-8 and figs. 108 and 109. A related table was sold Chisties, London, 4 March, 2004, lot 10.

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