ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY CHAMBER TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rounded rectangular reeded top with compartment at the rear containing pen dividers and one later glass ink well, above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer, the handles later, on tapering reeded legs, with brass caps and castors
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide; 19¾ in. (50 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The bedroom-apartment table, with its top bordered by reeds in the Grecian fashion promoted around 1800 by the architect Sir John Soane, relates to a sketch for this type of table which appears in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Book, dated 1810, and called by them a 'chamber writing-table' (No. 344/144, p. 11, Westminster City Archives).
Gillows supplied four tables of this pattern in 1811 to T. W. Egerton for Tatton Park, Cheshire (N. Goodison and J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park, Cheshire', Furniture History, 1970, pp. 28, 30, 32 and 35, pl. 16B).
A chamber table of closely related form was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 27 April 2006, lot 328 (£11,400) and another was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 26 January 2006, lot 136 (£9,000).
(See also lot 374 in this sale.)

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