A GEORGE III SATINWOOD DRESSING-TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD DRESSING-TABLE
Attributed to Gillows
Inlaid overall with ebony lines, the double-hinged top with inlaid ovals, enclosing a fitted interior with six box compartments, four circular wells, and an oval glazed well, on square legs with inlaid angle-brackets, joined by a pierced X-shaped stretcher with central inlaid flowerhead, four of eight angle-brackets replaced, one section of the stretcher damaged and strengthened with a metal plate, the glazed panel replaced and the central well previously with a mirror, split to top of one leg
24¾in. (65.5cm.) wide; 30½in. (77.5cm.) high; 22in. (56cm.) deep
來源
Probably supplied to John Wynne (d. 1788) of Coed Coch, Denbighshire.
Thence by descent.

拍品專文

The dressing-table, in golden satinwood, embellished with oval medallions and tablets paned in Etruscan-black ribbon, typifies the late 18th-Century Gillow style and the fashion for furnishing bedroom apartments with exotic and light-coloured woods. It relates to patterns for 'A Bason Stand and a Shaving Table' illustrated in Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director of 1763, (pl.LIV), and a 'Lady's Dressing Stand' published by Thomas Shearer in The Cabinet-Maker's London Book of Prices, 1788, (fig.1). Its pattern evolved from a sketch of 1770 for a table, also featuring an 'open cross rail' and lozenged-ribbon tablets inside its 'turn-over' tops, illustrated in the Estimate Sketch Books of Gillows of London and Lancaster (see L. Boynton (ed.), Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 29). The table may have been purchased for Dorothy Wynne (d.1809), John Wynne's mother, at the time of her marriage in 1776, and would demonstrate that the family had patronised Gillows before the turn of the century.