A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT LOW CLOTHES-PRESS
A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT LOW CLOTHES-PRESS
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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT LOW CLOTHES-PRESS

BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1820-1822

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT LOW CLOTHES-PRESS
BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1820-1822
With a pair of panelled doors enclosing four sliding trays, flanked on each side by four graduated drawers divided by reeded columns, on reeded bun feet, stamped twice 'GILLOWS. LANCASTER'
45½ in. (117 cm.) high; 90 in. (228 cm.) wide; 24 in. (63 cm.) deep
Provenance
Supplied to Charles, 2nd Earl Manvers (1778-1860) for Thoresby Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire, circa 1820-1822.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 25 November 2004, lot 206.

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Lot Essay

The low wardrobe, with palm-flowered frieze, formed part of the principal suite of bedroom furnishings commissioned around 1820 for Thoresby Hall, Nottinghamshire, from Gillows of London and Lancaster by Charles Herbert Pierrepont, 2nd Earl Manvers (1778-1860). Its form of enrichments was described by the firm as comprising 'neat moulded pilasters, carved trusses and patteras', while the doors' Grecian-fretted mouldings were called 'Lozenge corners'. It corresponds to Gillow's 'Rutland' pattern, such as the wardrobe they executed in July 1820 for Belvoir Castle, Rutland for John Henry Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland (d. 1857) (see Gillows' Estimate Sketch Book, no. 3053).

Gillows also published a design for a breakfront press closely related to the present lot (ibid no.3352).

The Manvers accounts reveal that purchases from Gillows amounted to over £3,000 in the early 1820s. Much of this furniture and many of the related Gillows sketches can be found in the Sotheby's catalogue for the Thorseby Hall house sale, 31 May-2 June 1989, including a wardrobe (lot 457) in the same style as the present lot and costing £32 6s 9d.

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