Lot 233
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN SPECIMEN-WOOD NEST OF FOUR TABLES
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN SPECIMEN-WOOD NEST OF FOUR TABLES

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN SPECIMEN-WOOD NEST OF FOUR TABLES
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Each with a rectangular top, one in burr walnut, one in rosewood, one in birch and one with a chessboard, crossbanded variously in birch, thuya and rosewood on rosewood turned baluster spindle legs joined by stretchers, probably originally part of a nest of five tables
The largest table 29in. (74cm.) high; 23in. (57.5cm.) wide; 16in. (41cm.) deep (4)
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Lot Essay

A related set of quartetto tables at Leighton Hall, Lancs, is likely to have been supplied by Gillows circa 1810 ( see R. Edwards & M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet Makers, rev. ed., London, 1955, p.221, fig. 193 ). Several sets of this pattern have been offered at Christie's including 9th June, 2005, lot 272 and 1st July 2004, lot 187.

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