BY GILLOWS OF LANCASTER, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE LEFT AND RIGHT DRAWER LININGS LATER

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE
BY GILLOWS OF LANCASTER, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE LEFT AND RIGHT DRAWER LININGS LATER
The rounded rectangular reeded top inset with a gilt-tooled green leather lined panel, above three panelled frieze drawers of which the central one stamped GILLOWS.LANCASTER, on ring-turned reeded tapering legs, on brass caps and castors
76 cm. high x 106 cm. wide x 63 cm. deep

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Lot Essay

A sketch for this type of table appears in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books, 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). Chamber tables of closely related form were sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 14 June 2001, lot 177 and 16 September 2004, lot 80. From the 1790s until 1875, Gillows used a single block in the stamp which is most often found on Gillows pieces: 'GILLOWS . LANCASTER'. This is commonly found on the leading edge of drawer fronts.

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