SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS

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A WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD CENTRE TABLE WITH ITALIAN PIETRA DURA TOP
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS
Including specimens of lapis lazuli, malachite, jasper, agate and onyx on a fossilised black marble ground, the top centred by butterflies, leaves and flowers encircled by eight larger butterflies on a carved rosewood tripod base, the satinbirch band around the top originally in rosewood
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

The carved moulding on the top is almost identical to that on magnificent boulle table attributed to Gillows' London manufactory by S. Stuart (Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, London, 2008, vol. I, p. 291). It also appears on an oval table in the Estimate Sketch Books, folio 2054 (July 1817). The top as a whole resembles the specimen marble table supplied to Broughton Hall by Gillows London in 1821 (illus. ibid., vol. I, p. 337), while the base relates to a design in the Estimate Sketch Books, folio 3751 (December 1829).

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