BY GILLOWS, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT WARDROBE
BY GILLOWS, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
With a reeded cornice, above a pair of panelled doors enclosing four sliding trays (two trays missing), with two short and two long drawers flanked on each side by a hanging cupboard and with turned reeded columns throughout, some losses
84 in. (213 cm.) high; 99 in. (251 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The wardrobe, with Pompeian pillared corners, reflects the French/antique fashion promoted around 1800. This reeded pillar pattern, combined with tablets of beautifully figured mahogany framed in Grecian-fretted reeds, featured on a bookcase executed by Gillow and closely related to a pattern in their 1805 Sketch Book (sold Sotheby's London, 22 November 2006, Lot 119). Gillows sketch for a closely related clothes-press pattern featured in their 1806 Sketch Book, and they supplied another related clothes-press for Hackwood House, in 1813 (sold Christie's house sale, Hackwood House, 20-22 April 1998, lot 367).

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