A REGENCY MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE

BY GILLOWS, THE CRAFTSMAN RICHARD WILCOCK

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE
By Gillows, The Craftsman Richard Wilcock
The rounded rectangular twin flap top above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer and on turned tapering reeded legs, brass caps and castors, the interior of the drawer inscribed in ink 'SW 1' and the underside with the same inscribed in ink, the underside of the drawer signed in pencil 'R Wilcock'
41½ in. (105 cm.) wide, open; 28¼ in. (72 cm.) high; 29½ in. (75 cm.) deep

Provenance

Supplied in 1813 to William Powlett, 2nd Baron Bolton (1782-1850) for the Dressing Room adjoining the South West Bedroom at Hackwood.
By descent until sold in 1935 with Hackwood to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (d.1954).
Thence by descent.

Literature

Gillows Memorandum, May 1813, the South West Bedroom: 'A Mahogany Pembroke Table'.
Gillows Bill, July 1813: 'To a good Mahogany Pembroke Table on turnd Reeded legs and Castors, top ends of legs panelled 2ft 6 by 3ft 6'. Invoiced for £5 5s.

Lot Essay

Richard Wilcock is recorded working for Gillows in Lancaster between 1806 and 1817 (C. Gilbert and G. Beard, eds., The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1986, p. 973).
Three pembroke tables of this model are listed in both the Memorandum and the Bill but the inventory mark on the drawer confirms that this table is the one supplied for the Dressing Room adjoining the South West Bedroom.
This pattern of pembroke-table relates to one in Gillows' General Sketch Book, 344 144, p. 11, and it is en suite with the Chamber writing-table (lot 366). This is turn relates to tables supplied in 1811 for Tatton Park, Cheshire (N. Goodison and J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park', Furniture History, 1970, pp. 28, 30, 32 and 35, pl. 16b).

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