IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD KIDNEY SHAPED WRITING TABLE
IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
With applied beaded decoration throughout, the shaped top on standard end supports, with further slender spindle uprights and splayed feet with brass foliate capped castors
29½in. (75cm.) high, 36½in. (93cm.) wide, 19in. (48cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A table with 'spindle end' trestles of this Grecian lyre pattern features in the 1818 Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows of London and Lancaster (see G.Wills, Craftsmen and Cabinet-Makers of Classic English Furniture, Edinburgh, 1974, fig. 109).

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