ELEVEN REGENCY, CIRCA 1800 AND POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS, TWO ARMCHAIRS SECOND HALF 20TH CENTURY

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A SET OF THIRTEEN EBONISED AND POLYCHROME DECORATED CHAIRS
ELEVEN REGENCY, CIRCA 1800 AND POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS, TWO ARMCHAIRS SECOND HALF 20TH CENTURY
Each with caned back and seat, ten side chairs with ivorine label MONTGOMERIE, minor variations, restoration to decoration

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Lot Essay

These chairs were possibly made by Gillows for an important Scottish family. Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, spent over £4500 with Gillows between 1799-1802 furnishing Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire. His son Lord Archibald Montgomerie spent £1145 with Gillows furnishing Coilsfield House between 1801-1802. If these are Gillows chairs they must have been a commission from Gillows' London branch whose sketched designs have not survived. See S. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, vol. 1, pp.206-9 for an account of the Montgomerie patronage of the firm.

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