A REGENCY MAHOGANY WINE-TABLE

IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY WINE-TABLE
In the manner of Gillows
The semi-circular top with extending flaps to either end and with removable semi-circular inset, above a plain frieze, the underside with turned brass attachment, on ring-turned reeded tapering legs with gadrooned brass caps and castors, with later removable brass attachment with finial, and an associated polychrome-painted papier mâché coaster, on later brass castors
88 in. (223.5 cm.) wide, open; 28½ in. (72 cm.) high; 63 in. (160 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This horseshoe-formed sidetable evolved from the 'Gentleman's Social Table' illustrated in Messrs. A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, London, 2nd ed., 1788. With its reed-enriched rim and legs, it corresponds to the 'mahogany social table' supplied in 1810 to Richard Gascoigne, Esq. for Parlington Hall, Yorkshire by Gillows of Lancaster (C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, London, 1978, vol. II, no. 494, p. 377). This type of dining-room table, intended for fireside drinking, is discussed in R. Butler, The Book of Wine Antiques, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 223.
A similar wine-table was sold from the collection of the late Miss A.M. Verdon, Llanerchydol Hall, Welshpool, in these Rooms, 10 April 1986, lot 155.

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