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Lot 74TP

A Regency mahogany luggage stand by Gillows

25 April 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £16,875 inc. premium

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A Regency mahogany luggage stand by Gillows

Circa 1820, with a ring turned baluster gallery back, above a reverse ogee seat frame and slatted base, on reeded and ring turned baluster tapering legs, stamped: 'GILLOWS.LANCASTER', 64cm wide x 54cm deep x 78.5cm high, (25in wide x 21in deep x 30 1/2in high)

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An identical luggage stand to the offered lot sold Christie's, London, 6 July 2000, Important English Furniture, lot 46.

The present example is rare in that it has a highly distinctive and elegant gallery back whereas the vast majority of such models do not. It follows a Gillow's design, dated 12 September 1822, for a 'trunk stand with back' supplied to P.H. Langston Esq., Gillows Sketch Books, pl. 3190. This design is available online at www.bonhams.com

Eight comparable luggage stands (without gallery backs) were provided by Gillows for Wilbraham Egerton of Tatton Park, Cheshire in 1812 at a cost of £1 16s 0d. per stand, N. Goodison and J. Hardy, Gillows at Tatton Park, Furniture History Society, 1970, pp. 11 and 12, fig. 14A. This more typical (backless) version which appears twice in the Sketch Books, first features in an entry for 1807.

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