A REGENCY MAHOGANY KNEEHOLE DESK

BY GILLOWS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY KNEEHOLE DESK
By Gillows
The rounded rectangular green leather-lined top with three-quarter pierced quatrefoil brass gallery, the concave centre with a mahogany-lined frieze drawer flanked on each side by five short drawers, between reeded baluster columns, the reverse with panels, on turned tapering legs with brass caps and castors, lacking one castor
30 in. (77 cm.) high, excluding gallery; 54 in. (137 cm.) wide; 28 in. (71 cm.) deep

Provenance

Supplied to William Powlett, 2nd Baron Bolton (1782-1850).
Sold in 1935 to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (d.1954) and by descent.

Lot Essay

The 1813 commission from Lord Bolton to Gillows to furnish the new rooms is well documented, with both a surviving Memorandum detailing the furniture prior to delivery and a Bill preserved in the Bolton archive in Hampshire Record Office (11M49 468I). The Bill is certainly only one of several as there was considerably more furniture by Gillows than it detailed. Much of the Gillow furniture was sold in Christie's house sale last year (20-22 April 1998, lots 356-370), including a dressing-table of precisely this model but without the leather top, lot 364 (47,700).

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