BY GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE
BY GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular solid three-quarter gallery, above a frieze drawer flanked on the left by a deep drawer simulated as two, and by two drawers on the right, on reeded turned tapering legs with brass caps and castors, stamped twice 'W.E.H' and once 'GILLOWS.LANCASTER', the drawers lined in mahogany

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Lot Essay

The stamp of 'GILLOWS . LANCASTER' is recorded on a related reed-enriched dressing-table, but with low 'rims' supplied in 1811 for Parlington Hall (C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Leeds, 1978, No. 500). A related wash-stand with lidded compartment at the rear edge and 'turned reeded legs' is likely to have been amongst the Gillows furniture supplied to William (1792-1842), 3rd Earl of Darlington for Cleveland House, 19 St James's Square and sold by his descendent, at Raby Castle, Christie's house sale, 10 October 1994, lots 120 and 137. A dressing-table in the manner of Gillows and with shaped rectangular top was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 26 January 2007, lot 1039 (£5,520).

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