ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1800

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A GEORGE III ROSEWOOD AND MAPLE BANDED SIDE CABINET
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1800
Panelled throughout in quartered maple, and strung overall in ebony, the top with 'hollow-cornered' banding and 'towered' ears, the columns inlaid with simulated flutes, the pleated silk-lined doors enclosing two banks of two adjustable shelves
35½ in. (90 cm.) high; 49 in. (124 cm.) wide; 13½ in. (34.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This superbly made side cabinet is very similar to a rosewood cabinet supplied by Gillows in 1801 to Luke Dillon, 2nd Lord Clonbrock for Clonbrock, Co. Galway, Ireland, illustrated in Frances Collard, Regency Furniture, London, 1985, p.83. A Gillows design from 1803 shows a rosewood side cabinet with pleated silk lined doors, very similar banding to the top, and almost identical columns described as having "16 white strings let in each column" (Estimate Sketch Books folio no. 1715).

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