ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, MID-19TH CENTURY

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, MID-19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top with waved border above one frieze and one false drawer, mirrored to the reverse, supported by two turned supports joined by turned stretcher, terminating in twin acanthus-scrolled cabriole legs, the locks stamped AUSTER & SMITH PATENT
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 60 in. (152 cm.) wide; (71 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The form of this sofa table seems to relate most closely to a June 1825 design for a rosewood writing table by Gillows for the Revd. Fane. (see Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730 - 1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol. I, p.268, pl.274.).

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