ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1830

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY WRITING OR DRESSING TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1830
The top, frieze and gallery with reeded mouldings, the frieze with three drawers with original rosewood handles, the legs headed by figured mahogany panels, the castors stamped COPES PATENT
32 in. (81 cm.) high; 44 in. (111.5 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Three almost identical dressing tables appear in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books between 1827-32 (folio 3567, January 1827; folio 3715, June 1829; and folio 3912, October 1832) but more than twenty variants are shown in the firm's archives. Such tables were available in cheaper "baywood" (Honduras mahogany) or more expensive "mahogany" (Jamaican or Cuban mahogany) or combinations of the two. The present table, which uses both, was evidently a mid-price version.

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