Thomas Moore
Head of Department
Lot 76TP
A George IV mahogany combination folio cabinet/stand attributed to Gillows
23 – 24 February 2021, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £7,650 inc. premium
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A George IV mahogany combination folio cabinet/stand attributed to Gillows
Circa 1830, the sliding hinged adjustable ratcheted top inset with tooled leather surfaces, the top incorporating two laterally opposing hinged adjustable ratcheted surfaces, above a pair of glazed doors enclosing four adjustable folio shelves, with a twin panelled reverse, on a plinth base and concealed castors, with two detachable rests, 107cm wide x 73cm deep x 85cm high, (42in wide x 28 1/2in deep x 33in high)
Footnotes
Purchased
Sotheby's, 11th December 2019, Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection, lot 112.
Provenance
Formerly housed at Spetchley Park, Worcester, home of the Berkeley family for over 400 years.
In 1893, the offered lot was recorded as 'a mahogany portfolio cabinet' (located at that time in the Inner Hall) as part of an inventory undertaken at Spetchley.
In the 20th century the present cabinet was documented as 'a mahogany portfolio cabinet, fitted two glazed doors, 3'6" wide' (then located in the Front Hall) as part of another Spetchley inventory undertaken in 1949.
Two virtually identical folio cabinets to the present model both sold at Sotheby's. The one which is stamped: 'Gillows' sold in London, 17 June 1983, lot 130 whilst the other unstamped example was originally purchased in London, 8 March 1985, lot 201 by A. Alfred Taubman, and was then subsequently sold by the latter through Sotheby's, New York, 13 & 14 April 2016, lot 316.
A total of four designs for closely related 'pedestal portfolio stands' (as they were described by Gillows) feature in the Estimate Sketch Books during the 1830s, No.'s 5073, 5106, 5109 and 5148, City of Westminster Archive.
