Thomas Moore
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Lot 92TP,Y
A George IV carved rosewood breakfast or centre table attributed to Gillows 1825-1830
29 November 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£7,000 - £9,000
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A George IV carved rosewood breakfast or centre table attributed to Gillows
1825-1830
The circular tilt-top with an alternating acanthus and lotus-leaf carved ovolo edge, on a hexagonal baluster form column with a foliate collar, the channelled triform base with profuse acanthus carving and with volute scrolled hippings, terminating in large lion paw feet carved with hairy hocks, on recessed brass castors, approximate diameter of the top: 140cm; 75cm high.
The circular tilt-top with an alternating acanthus and lotus-leaf carved ovolo edge, on a hexagonal baluster form column with a foliate collar, the channelled triform base with profuse acanthus carving and with volute scrolled hippings, terminating in large lion paw feet carved with hairy hocks, on recessed brass castors, approximate diameter of the top: 140cm; 75cm high.
Footnotes
A virtually identical table to the offered lot sold Sotheby's, London, 2003, A Celebration of the English Country House, lot 731. Another table of the same model, one likewise attributed to Gillows, sold Bonhams, New Bond Street, 20 November 2013, Fine English Furniture, lot 199.
A further near conforming table, albeit one attributed to the Dublin cabinet making partnership of Williams and Gibton sold Christie's, London, 9 October 2012, Aynhoe Park - A Modern Grand Tour, lot 274. Another was sold Sotheby's, New York, 30 April-1 May 2003, lot 73. Other similar models sold include Christie's, Belton House, Lincolnshire (The property of The Lord Brownlow), 30 April-2 May, 1984, lot 90; Christie's, London, 14 November 2013, The English Collector, lot 171 and Sotheby's London, 17 November 2010, lot 194.
The distinctive foliate carving to the top edge of the present example, along with its massive lion paw feet, relate in particular to the 'Handsome pillar and claw [table] richly carved in rosewood' that Gillow & Co. executed in 1821 for a circular marble slab provided by Stephen Tempest of Broughton Hall, Yorkshire. This table appears in S. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, Vol I, pl. 391, p. 337.
See also S. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, Vol II, pl. E.5 which shows a pattern for this table in a drawing room layout designed for G. Bamford about 1820-30. The drawing also shows a pair of bergères and a sofa which in turn correspond to a suite supplied by Gillow & Co. in 1824 to Thomas Wynn (d.1832), 2nd Baron Newborough, for Glynllifon, Caernarvonshire, Wales, sold Christie's, London, 9 March 2010, lots 101 & 102.
