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A Regency rosewood and brass inlaid library table in the manner of Gillows, unusually designed in two halves, each with a leather lined top inlaid overall with panels of scroll and strapwork cut brass, and with eight mahogany lined frieze drawers, two each to the front and back and two shallow drawers to each end, the front and back with pleated green fabric concave doors, on an ormolu mounted gadroon moulded plinth, with bold scrolling cabriole legs with lion's paw feet 84 x 214 x 138cm (33 x 83 x 54in)
Provenance: High House, Westacre, Norfolk. The table is believed to have been made for the library extension between 1824-1829 Literature: Stuart ( E.S) Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, page 289, plate 306 Lot . 21 Christie's Hackwood Park sale, 20, 21 & 22nd April 1998 The Hackwood Park Library Table is of very similar design and proportion, supplied by Gillow of Oxford Street, London, in 1813 to William Powlett (1782-1850), the second Baron Bolton, for Hackwood Park. With the exception of the corner columns, the boulle cut brass inlays, drawer arrangement and incurved pleated doors follow the design of the Hackwood table. A library table with similar design features was sold at Christie's sale in London on 18th May 2017, Lot 577 Other Notes: Gillows of Lancaster and London were one of the great furniture and cabinet makers of the late 18th Century and 19th century. Founded in 1730 by Robert Gillow, the company remained in business until 1938 - albeit having merged with Waring of Liverpool in 1897. Gillows' designs were never worked up to a finished state or formally published. Instead they retained Estimate Sketch Books containing some 20,000 sketches used for the firm's private records or for customer's confidential perusal. The Gillows archive from 1731-1932 contains under 200 volumes of records. The company attracted commissions from a wide social spectrum: from tradesmen to the aristocracy and a wide range of products: from altarpieces and coffins to sideboards and chairs. Their furniture is collected and displayed in public collections and houses including; Erddig, Wrexham: Kingston Lacy, Dorset; and Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.
Country house condition with losses of inlays and mouldings as well as wear to the leather
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