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The dining-table pattern relates to a design in Gillows' sketch for 'A Sett of Dining Tables', supplied to Hugh, 12th Earl of Eglinton around 1800. Inscribed 'Ld Eglinton' and detailing the specific measurements for each leaf to extend to a total of '20ft..by 5ft', the table was to be 'on Pillars Do Claws'. The Eglinton table was acquired by Frank Partridge & Sons around 1925 and subsequently purchased by the 4th Marquess of Bute for the New Dining Room at Dumfries House in 1936.
This same pattern was employed by Gillows for 'A Sett of Dining Tables' supplied in 1798 for Bellamour, Staffordshire (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760 - 1800, 1995, no. 55). Gillow's Day Book lists the latter's materials and manufacturing costs at a little over £22, and this included the '6 pillars, 24 claws. iron plates from Bottom of the Pillars, 5 Pair of Brass Fasteners'. It was made by the Lancaster cabinet-maker George Atkinson, who executed a number of such dining tables for Gillows between 1790 and 1802. A further contemporaneous design for a six-pedestal table inscribed to 'Lady Blount' and dated August 1798 is reproduced in L. Boynton, ibid., no. 55. This pattern was probably a continuation of a model that would have first been used by the firm from the middle of the eighteenth century.
Another example with three pedestals was in the Norman Adams Collection (C. Claxton Stevens, S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection, 1983, p. 251).
This same pattern was employed by Gillows for 'A Sett of Dining Tables' supplied in 1798 for Bellamour, Staffordshire (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760 - 1800, 1995, no. 55). Gillow's Day Book lists the latter's materials and manufacturing costs at a little over £22, and this included the '6 pillars, 24 claws. iron plates from Bottom of the Pillars, 5 Pair of Brass Fasteners'. It was made by the Lancaster cabinet-maker George Atkinson, who executed a number of such dining tables for Gillows between 1790 and 1802. A further contemporaneous design for a six-pedestal table inscribed to 'Lady Blount' and dated August 1798 is reproduced in L. Boynton, ibid., no. 55. This pattern was probably a continuation of a model that would have first been used by the firm from the middle of the eighteenth century.
Another example with three pedestals was in the Norman Adams Collection (C. Claxton Stevens, S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection, 1983, p. 251).