Thomas Moore
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Lot 167TP
A Regency rosewood and brass inlaid library table attributed to Gillows
23 – 24 February 2021, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £7,650 inc. premium
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A Regency rosewood and brass inlaid library table attributed to Gillows
Circa 1820, with line-inlay, the gilt tooled leather inset top above six short opposing mahogany-lined frieze drawers, with stylised foliate strapwork inlaid angles, on vertical end supports headed with scrolled foliate corbels, terminating in scrolled scallop shell capped and acanthus carved lion paw feet with recessed brass castors, with a ring turned baluster cross stretcher, 168cm wide x 99cm deep x 74cm high, (66in wide x 38 1/2in deep x 29in high)
Footnotes
An early Gillows model of end support comparable to that on the present table, with its opposing upper and lower scrolled corbels combined with paw feet, can be found on a design for one of two rosewood sofa tables made for John Gladstone Esq. This drawing which appears in the Estimate Sketch Books, dated 13 April 1813, is also illustrated in S.E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, Vol I, 2008, Woodbridge, p. 265, pl. 270.
Another drawing, dated 5 September 1821, for a similar rosewood library table to the offered lot likewise features in Gillows' Sketch Books, p. 3126, City of Westminster Archives. Evidently this particular example, which was commissioned by Mr Earle, was most likely executed by the Gillows firm at approximately the same time as the above.
Further related sofa tables feature in one of Gillow & Co.'s plans for a library layout, which was provided for H.J. Thompson in 1830, while the business was located at 176 Oxford Street, Ibid, Vol II, 2008, Woodbridge, p.352, pl's. E9 & E10.
