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A Regency mahogany chamber/writing table by Gillows of Lancaster

20 November 2013, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,500 inc. premium

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A Regency mahogany chamber/writing table by Gillows of Lancaster

The rounded rectangular top with reeded edge and hinged rear compartment enclosing two ink bottles and a pen tray, above a frieze drawer, on ring turned tapering legs and brass cappings and castors, stamped GILLOWS.LANCASTER, 74cm wide, 53cm deep, 77cm high (29in wide, 20.5in deep, 30in high).

Footnotes

A related design for a 'chamber table' appears in the Gillows Estimate Sketch Books for 1826, reference 3497. An example of a chamber table supplied by Gillows to Parlington Hall in 1811 is illustrated in C.Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam and Lotherton Hall, London and Bradford, 1978, p.381, no.502. Other similar models include those sold Bonhams London, 18th November 2009, Lots 185 and 190, Bonhams Chester 8th March 2007, Lot 871, and 18 March 2010, lot 917. Two further chamber tables of simplified form, by Gillows sold Christie's London, 16 September 2004, lots 56 and 57.

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