BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1825

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A GEORGE IV GONCALO ALVES WRITING-TABLE
BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1825
The rounded rectangular top with gadrooned edge above a bead-and-reel edged frieze fitted with two mahogany-lined drawers to one side, above baluster turned and gadrooned end supports terminating in beaded bases and foliate-carved scroll feet with sunk brass castors, stamped 'GILLOWS LANCASTER'
29 in. (74 cm.) high. 55½ in. (141 cm.) wide; 32 in. (81 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Close variants of this pattern appear in the Gillows Estimate Sketch Book for 24 September 1824, no. 3371, and 10 October 1828, no. 3684, one for a Mr Dagmall and the other to Captain Armitage. The 1828 pattern cost just over £9.5s but was fitted with end-drawers. A galleried version of this table, with baize-lined top, was supplied in 1822 to William, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (d. 1833) for Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, and sold in the Wentworth sale, Christie's, London, 8 July 1998, lot 83. Another closely-related but smaller example and like the present table, executed in Goncalo Alves, was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 6 April 2000, lot 122. (See also lot 1162 in the sale)

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