ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY CHAMBER WRITING-TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rounded rectangular reeded top with hinged pen-drawer at the rear edge enclosing two glass ink-wells, above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer, on reeded tapering legs and turned tapering feet, with brass caps and castors
29 in. (74 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A sketch for this type of table appears in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books, dated 1810, and called by them a 'chamber writing-table' (No. 344/144, p. 11, Westminster City Archives). Gillows supplied four tables of this pattern in 1811 to T. W. Egerton for Tatton Park, Cheshire (N. Goodison and J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park, Cheshire', Furniture History, 1970, pp. 28, 30, 32 and 35, pl. 16B).

A chamber table of closely related form was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 26 January 2006, lot 136.
Please also see lot 167 in this sale for a similar chamber writing-table.

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