POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1810-15

Details

A REGENCY GILT-METAL MOUNTED MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE
POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1810-15
The rounded rectangular top with inset gilt-tooled green leather writing surface, above two frieze, two opposing drawers and a drawer to each end, on reeded tapering legs terminating in gilt-metal caps and castors, with batton carrying holes
29 ¾ in. (75.5 cm.) high; 71 ¼ in. (181 cm.) wide; 35 ¾ in. (91 cm.) deep

Literature

P. Buchanan, ‘The London home of TRH the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Homes and Gardens, June 1951, p. 34, illustrated in situ in the drawing room.

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Lot Essay

A design for this table exists in the Gillows's Estimate Sketch Books (344/99, no. 1877); the table was executed in 1804 for George Scott Elliott of Woodslee near Longtown. Gillows frequently re-issued fashionable designs across a number of years, and the design for Elliott appears to be the first of this pattern.

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