A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY LOW CLOTHES-PRESS
A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY LOW CLOTHES-PRESS

IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS, CIRCA 1830-40

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A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY LOW CLOTHES-PRESS
IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS, CIRCA 1830-40
Of inverted breakfront outline with a low three-quarter gallery and reeded edge above a pair of panelled doors enclosing six trays and flanked on each side by four graduated drawers with rosewood turned knobs throughout, on turned feet with brass caps and castors, inscribed in pencil to reverse 'BOLTON', the trays later, handles apparently original
49½ in. (126 cm.) high; 66½ in. (169 cm.) wide; 19 in. (49 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A related design for this pattern of 'low wardrobe' between chest of drawers features in Gillow's Estimate Sketch Book, and the firm supplied similar wardrobes for the bedroom apartments at Tatton Park, Cheshire created by the architect Lewis Wyatt (d.1853) (N. Goodison & J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park', Furniture History, 1970, pp. 1-39, pls.11A, 10A and 10B).
Another example of the same inverted breakfront form as the present lot, and bearing the stamp of Johnstone Jeanes & Co, 67 New Bond St., London, was sold anonymously Christie's, London, 7 February 1991.

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