ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1830-35

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A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV SIMULATED ROSEWOOD SOFAS
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1830-35
Each with rectangular padded back, arms, seat and cushions covered in red velvet, on turned and reeded tapering legs, brass caps and castors, each including two bolster cushions, one seat cushion, three rectangular cushions, and two loose square cushions, one with paper label inscribed in ink 'BRYNKINALT RN'
34½ in. (86 cm.) high; 78½ in. (199.5 cm.) wide; 35 in. (89 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to Arthur Hill-Trevor, 2nd Viscount Dungannon (1763-1837) of Brynkinalt, North Wales.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 14 July 1995, lot 178.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 18 April 1996, lot 197.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 6 April 2000, lot 49.

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Lot Essay

The sofas are likely to have formed part of the drawing-room furniture commissioned by Arthur Hill-Trevor, 2nd Viscount Dungannon (d. 1837) following his aggrandisement of his Jacobean house around 1808. Their Grecian reed-enriched feet correspond to furniture manufactured by Gillows at this period.

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